Welcome to the Making Sense podcast.

This is Sam Harris.

Okay, the long awaited episode on the most depressing topic on earth.

Child sexual abuse, otherwise known as child pornography, in the form of its public consumption.

As many of you know, I've delayed the release of this episode for several months.

It just never seemed like the right time to drop it.

One is the right time to talk about this, really.

In the tech space, it was probably 20 years ago.

Anyway, this is an episode that many of you will find difficult to listen to, understandably.

If you work in tech, I think you have a moral responsibility to listen to it.

If you work at a company like Facebook or AWS or Dropbox or Zoom or any company that facilitates

the spread of so-called child pornography, you really have a responsibility to listen

to this conversation and figure out how you can help solve this problem.

As you'll hear, we've gone from a world where pedophiles were exchanging polaroids in parking

lots to a world in which there is an absolute deluge of imagery that provides a photographic

and increasingly video record of the rape of children.

And as you'll hear, the tech companies have been terrible at addressing this problem.

And law enforcement is completely under-resourced and ineffectual here.

Now, as I said, I recorded this conversation some months ago.

As an indication of how long ago, when Zoom came up in the conversation, I felt the need

to define it as a video conferencing tool used by businesses.

I've since cut that.

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