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> As another 90s preteen, sure, but the internet today has a lot more pedos and groomers online than in the 90s

There were not fewer pedos and groomers online in the 90s, you were just lucky to have avoided it.

There were ~16mn users of the internet in 1995. As of 2025 there are 5.56bn. Are you saying paedophilia has dropped by 99.7% over 30 years? If so, please provide a source for that claim.

I think what matters are the percentages. Out of the 16mn users where there more or less than in the general population? I think it is reasonable to think they were as many percentage wise, if not more - because internet provides anonymity which is an advantage.

Nowadays with the number of users of the internet converging slowly to the total populations, the percentages are probably converging as well.

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