Manifesto

When I got home I tried to contemplate how such things continue to happen. That kid killing himself, the other kid posting to get interactions through predators.

Soon enough my thought process lead me to a government website. It even depicted the name for what the government considered it.

They call it "sextortion". While the kid that was posting on an app wasn't correlated to sextortion, the kid that committed suicide was confirmed through the news site to have been manipulated through money.

The government for a while had been saying that they had been doing something about it though whatever they did wasn't enough. I may have been to harsh on the government, at least on this matter. I kept thinking that it wouldn't be able to exist if the government valued the safety of children over their lies. But if I had lived longer, I would have seen the rise of the leader my country in the next election, one that was pent up on information being hidden away just so people could feel better about their current situation, even if their situation had been doomed since the beginning. It seems as if they are trying to do the most within their limits, in unrest of someone else coming along and halting all of their progress.

While researching for the project, I even found out that many governments in the world had a different concept of sextortion. In one country it was emails, in another it was being targeted through chat sites. But you would think if an issue was plaguing the children of a country, if not the entire world, then the issue would be known by all the children, all the parents, everyone.

But it isn't known by many. Who even is to blame for that?

The simple answer would be to blame the government due to them only doing campaigns to spread awareness in school districts after the issue already plagued enough students. If they just go to the school districts that happen to be affected, they leave out the majority of the entire student body within the country.

I did end up asking the npc whether or not he had known what it was. He said he did but he used a word to describe it that the government didn't use. The word he used was baiting. The word with context is not related to manipulation based off money. Though the government just uses sextortion because it is also something they can quantify as a crime.

I asked someone else completely, someone who isn't an npc at least. He also had no clue what any of it was.

I eventually did tell the lunch duo I ate with what my project was on. I can't remember whether or not their topics were npc ones, for the npc it was definitely a worldly npc issue.

They didn't have much of a reaction, other than confusion. I think if I had told the non npc in full detail none of any of this would exist.

Later I did present the issue of sextortion to the class, though nobody seemed to understand what I was talking about. To be fair, I was really nervous combined with not looking at anyone and they probably didn't hear much of the speech anyway because I was bad at projecting my voice.