This MUST be a Brass Eye spoof.... right???
social media safety expert and forensic psychologist Dr Maureen Griffin said... I have dealt with accounts set up pretending to be chicken nuggets and ice-cream in order to friend children.
So she wants us to believe that the children thought
ice cream was sending them messages on the internet?
Another filthy pervert set up a fake social media account and posed as a road outside a girls' secondary school. Over 400 girls at the school accepted the road as a friend.
Jesus Christ on a bike.
The owner of the account was a known convicted sex offender who made no effort to contact the girls, he didn't follow them or meet them in real life or wait outside their school. He simply collected their photos, pictures from teenage discos, girls' sleepovers and a range of selfies.
Ok, so?
One of her followers told her that he would get her more likes for her songs if she sang her song again - this time in her underwear.
But this is true. Rihanna does it all the time, and Madonna before her. And we're not told who the giver of the sage marketing advice was. It could have been a girl her own age.
And then there's this...
...images being taken and re-purposed
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, this is yet another indicator of a major campaign to criminalise people for who they are rather than what they do. So on the one hand it's perfectly ok for schoolgirls to express their strong, brave wimminhood by posting risqué selfies online: the
purpose. And on the other hand, it's a matter for criminal investigation if a member of the wrong demographic looks at the - legal, readily available - material for his private sexual entertainment: the
re-purpose.
Maureen Griffin runs a company based in Ireland providing training courses and seminars and such like about internet sexual crime (three contradictions in terms within one phrase, but that's the subject of another rant). It's in her interest to whip up McCarthyist panic about everybody fondling everybody else over the internet.