P2Philanthropy: BitTorrent for orphans!
Look carefully at the ways people do to feel good about themselves and to make others feel good about them, and you'll see a few things again and again.
Perhaps the most prominent: children.
Protecting kids is hardwired in our genes. They're vulnerable little critters, and their cute soft burbling li'l selves trigger self-sacrificing protective behaviors that go way, way back, apparently from before we were human.
Dogs picked up on this long ago, which is one big reason they evolved from nasty bitey S(andD)OBs into adorable puppies whose lives are little more than a prolonged pre-adolesence. To see the benefit of this, we need only look back to the Ellen dog adoption dust-up from earlier this week, which highlights how we have come to equate dogs with kids.
Like dogs, people have evolved their own adaptive strategies leveraging children for their own personal advantage. The charitable strippers controversy is a Russian nesting doll in this regard: puppeteers cast themselves as a children's charity and hold their annual fundraiser at a middle school, and a strip club tries to rehabilitate its own image by sending its employees to serve as volunteers. We see a similar dynamic in the viral spread of blogger support for DonorsChoose, a charity that connects donors to unmet needs in schools.
And here's another one. The BitTorrent community has come under a lot of fire for turning a blind eye to illegal file sharing. A popular counter-strategy has been to highlight the instances in which copyright enforcers file suit against children, but now, as the ever informative TorrentFreak reports, the community is raising the stakes:
Together with p2pnet, TorrentFreak adopted 29 little children who are in desperate need for food, clothing and a decent place to sleep. The Child Orphanage is for kids in Nepal whose parents were killed by Maoists demanding the abolition of the country’s monarchy.
Banning torrents hurts orphans. Now that's a powerful argument!
For more info, check out p2pkids.org.
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