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When all else fails, a think of the children lobbyist goes back to conflating apparent statistics of adults talking to minors with "abuse".

While this sounds bad on it's face, it gets worse when you consider the statistic comes from a "European group" (seemingly created in 2020 by an outside group out of thin air during an impasse on privacy legislation).

They appeared to be best buds with the usual suspects for no particular reason. Well, now we know why. This appears to be part of a trend of localwashing.

They don't bother digging far, or for any number which might contradict theirs. They craft surveys in such a manner that it would be easy to produce ambiguous easy to spin numbers, they draw crude correlations without thinking hard on them, their practices don't appear to improve over time, and they're in the gallery to support greater control.

At one point, they tried to promote a "prevention program".

They stated there was something like a 80% success rate. This was inaccurate. There were apparently thousands going in and a handful of people going out, they then surveyed those people about whether it was "helpful" (80%).

This was stated by they themselves... For anyone who bothered to click past the flashy number.
Crucially, they didn't seem to be too bothered to collect data from people currently undergoing it.

This is particularly problematic as some U.S. states have previously been found to be running impossible to complete programs (which just served as excuses to treat individuals in a more punitive manner, not as genuine therapeutic programs).

Also, something to be aware of is that these kinds of people tend to mix in decontextualized numbers in with speculation and assertions existing ex nihilo.

That is they're likely made without reference to existing knowledge insofar as that knowledge is inconvenient to the point they're trying to push.

They construct a conceptual space devoid of that, and speculate towards whatever end results in the most control.

Improper over-generalizations made from unusual samples are probably also something which are not unlikely to make an appearance.

These are annoying and keep getting debunked in way or another.

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