Sam Harris speaks with Gabriel Dance about the global epidemic of child sexual abuse. They discuss how misleading the concept of "child pornography" is, the failure of governments and tech companies to grapple with the problem, the tradeoff between online privacy and protecting children, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, photo DNA, the roles played by specific tech companies, the ethics of encryption, "sextortion," the culture of pedophiles, and other topics. If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access to all full-length episodes at samharris.org/subscribe.

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#213 — The Worst Epidemic

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Sam Harris Episodes Around August 4, 2020

#198 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom

#199 — A Conversation with Caitlin Flanagan

#200 — Creatures of Habit

#201 — A Conversation with Yuval Noah Harari

#202 — A Conversation with Andrew Yang

#203 — A Conversation with Caitlin Flanagan

#204 — A Conversation with Jonathan Haidt

#205 — The Failure of Meritocracy

#206 — A Conversation with David Frum

#207 — Can We Pull Back From The Brink?

#208 — Existential Risk

#209 — A Good Life

#210 — The Logic of Doomsday

#211 — The Nature of Human Nature

#212 — A Conversation with Kathryn Paige Harden

#213 — The Worst Epidemic

#214 — A Conversation with Siddhartha Mukherjee

#215 — A Conversation with David Miliband

#216 — A Conversation with Graeme Wood

#217 — The New Religion of Anti-Racism

#218 — Welcome to the Cult Factory

#219 — The Power of Compassion

#220 - The Information Apocalypse

#221 — Success, Failure, & the Common Good

#222 — A Pandemic of Incompetence

#223 — A Conversation with Andrew Sullivan

#224 — The Key to Trump's Appeal

#225 — Republic of Lies

#226 — The Price of Distraction

#227 — Knowing the Mind

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