Is the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) helping or hindering the the process of bringing child pornographers to justice ? (pizzagate)

submitted ago by cantsleepawink

I recently found a reddit thread that highlights the problem of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) working 'in partnership' with government when it is classified as a non profit corporation. See recent law suit over the handling of child pornography: http://archive.is/TROdU.

Don't forget that they work closely with AmberAlert.

Reddit thread here: https://archive.is/7ZBSl#selection-2867.25-2867.83

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Infopractical ago

"The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) is not an advertising group for missing children, they are an advertising group for law enforcement agencies to submit ads of missing children."

This is what is known as a "prior", which is an assumption underlying a belief system. Unless you run this agency, you don't know its intentions just like you don't know any other human's intentions.

I'm not stating that I know their intentions. I'm stating a hypothesis for the purpose of testing that hypothesis with other information to determine its consistency. This is an ordinary and reasonable thought experiment.

"you damn well better post from proof."

Um, no. Experiments aren't about proof. Experiments are about establishing consistency between hypotheses and observations.

That said, I know a lot more about this than I'm being up front about for a variety of reasons that I don't care to share with you. If I shared it straight out, it wouldn't be as valuable and convincing than if I walked people through thought experiments and allowed discussion of judgment of the details.