If you look at Thorns front web page you will see all over the place that they are hiring people to work for them to take down human traffickers. This sounds like a way to get all of us Pizzagate investigators to try to work for them and display all the info that there is, as well as names and addresses of the people being hired by Thorn. You would think Ashton would be all over Pizzagate but he hasn't ever mentioned it.
The timing of this video coming out is just too coincidental. It was pushed by MSM stations on social media. Most likely being used as an advertisement add for Thorn, knowing Pizzagate researchers would look at Thorn and people may end up applying. It just seems really fishy.
Here is the link to Thorns website. https://www.wearethorn.org
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rooting4redpillers ago
Yes, it's great to get people to believe and take interest in the subject, but how information is selectively dished out to the public is no small concern.
My impressions of Thorn, so far - Thorn seems like a great tool for gaining access and control of information. I'll be interested to see if they start getting more media attention from here on out. And if they start to position themselves as some big, new "voice," of a revitalized "movement" to stop the trafficking industry. Ashton Kutcher is the face and voice (and tears) of the project, probably not much more, and probably even sincere, to some great or small extent.
The Thorn website claims, We partner across the tech industry, government and NGOs and leverage technology to combat predatory behavior, rescue victims, and protect vulnerable children.
Anti-trafficking organizations across the country didn't have much interest in working with Thorn back in 2015. Out of 73 of these orgs, 59 refused to participate, and they got their stats from a grand total of 111 people from 14 orgs - see excerpt from their survey, below.
They have 20 technology company "Partners" listed on the site, but I can't find any anti-trafficking organization "Partners" listed.
From the Thorn website > Our Work > ...
Research: A large part of our work comes from informed research collected in the field, which helps our team, along with our many partners, remain on the cutting edge of technology.
... Expore the Research > Report on the Use of Technology to Recruit, Groom and Sell Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking Victims > Download the Report
Research conducted by Thorn Digital Defenders of Children In collaboration with Dr. Vanessa Bouché, January 2015
Overview of Survey & Participants
Survey Procedure
Thorn made initial email contact with 73 anti-trafficking organizations across the country asking them if they would like to participate in the survivor survey. Of the 73 organizations contacted, 26 declined to participate, 28 did not respond to multiple follow-up emails, and five agreed to participate but still had not returned surveys as of the writing of this report. Thus, 14 organizations from across the country participated in the survivor survey, and this generated a total of 115 respondents.1 Thorn compensated the organizations/ participants for their time in the form of a check or gift card, depending on the organization’s stated preference.
1 There were four respondents that the researchers deemed were not human trafficking cases, and therefore dropped from the sample. The respondents were older than 18 years of age when they entered prostitution, they reported that they did not have a pimp, and there was no indication of any force, fraud and coercion in the interview transcript.
Thorn Board of Directors
ASHTON KUTCHER (Co-Founder)
DEMI MOORE (Co-Founder)
RAY CHAMBERS, United Nations Advocate and Special Envoy
JIM PITKOW, Chair of the Thorn Technology Task Force
PADMASREE WARRIOR, CEO, Chief Development Officer and Board of Directors of NextEV, U.S
SUZANNE BELL, Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
JOE LONSDALE, Founding Partner at 8VC and Co-Founder of Palantir
ERNIE ALLEN, Child Protection Advisor
Thorn Staff
JULIE CORDUA, Chief Executive Officer
SARAH GARDNER, Director of Development
BROOKE ISTOOK, Director of Strategy & Operations
LEAH TREITMAN, Program Manager
SUGREEV CHAWLA, Lead Data Scientist
KRISTIN BOORSE, Senior Product Manager
RUBEN VAN DER DUSSEN, Senior Software Engineer
NIKISHA VASHEE, Development Associate
MIKE OTTUM, Software Engineer
CHASE RICKETTS, Software Engineer
DANIELLE MELFI, Policy & Development Manager
Thorn Pro Bono Partners
AGS - Altman Greenfield & Selvaggi LLP - Certified Public Accounts
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