🇨🇦 5,700 child exploitation files, and the fix is another parental lecture

Alberta’s Internet Child Exploitation Unit went from about 1,050 cases in 2018 to nearly 5,700 last year, while the Canadian Centre for Child Protection logged more than 3,000 child-luring reports in 2025 alone. That is not a glitch in the matrix. It is a social breakdown hiding behind app features and bureaucratic talking points. In Edmonton, 18-year-old Arshdeep Singh allegedly used Snapchat’s location tool to track two related youths, threaten their family, and extort explicit videos, as reported.

And the official response is the usual soft-focus nonsense: parents should review settings, kids should be careful, platforms should be safer. Brilliant. A country that can regulate stoves, speech, and plastic straws somehow cannot protect children from predatory digital filth until after the damage is done. Trudeau-era Canada loves surveillance when it targets taxpayers and dissidents, but when predators weaponize tech against children, the state suddenly rediscovers personal responsibility. This is what managed decline looks like.

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