<story><title>A dad took photos of his toddler for a doctor – Google flagged him as a criminal</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveillance-toddler-photo.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>The similarity is because it&amp;#x27;s an example of something other cultures see as normal, or at least harmless, but in the US it is seen as an egregious offense.&lt;p&gt;Not hard for me to imagine a 7 year old American getting expelled and potentially prosecuted for trying to play a &amp;quot;Kancho&amp;quot; prank on a friend.</text></item><item><author>therealdrag0</author><text>Similar in South Korea: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.thesun.co.uk&amp;#x2F;travel&amp;#x2F;5476857&amp;#x2F;south-korean-game-dong-chim&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.thesun.co.uk&amp;#x2F;travel&amp;#x2F;5476857&amp;#x2F;south-korean-game-do...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;But what does this have to do with nudity or destroying lives? Seems totally off base.</text></item><item><author>elif</author><text>in japan, children play a game called Kancho, where they put their index fingers together and try to insert it into the anus of their unsuspecting friend.&lt;p&gt;in america, you could destroy someone&amp;#x27;s life over that. (possibly even multiple lives)</text></item><item><author>Wowfunhappy</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;s quite as strict as you&amp;#x27;re making it out to be.&lt;p&gt;I was in a park in Manhattan last week, which had a bunch of big sprinklers for kids to run through. No one was naked in the sprinkler, but some parents helped their children change in&amp;#x2F;out of their bathing suits out in the open.&lt;p&gt;(Then again, I only remember this because I was a tad surprised by it.)</text></item><item><author>elif</author><text>From my travels, my impression has been that America in particular treats child nudity as completely, unexceptionally obscene, beyond even adult nudity.&lt;p&gt;Compared to a beach in Europe, where nearly half of children under 2 run naked, there seems to be no grey area or minimum acceptability in the US.&lt;p&gt;It makes me wonder if our hypersexualized treatment of child nudity &amp;#x2F;actively contributes&amp;#x2F; to the sexualization of children in our culture.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bitwize</author><text>In America you can be prosecuted for being that weird kid who tries to kiss everybody. It can result in permanent sex-offender registration, and when they look at your record it won&amp;#x27;t say you were a weird kid who tried to kiss everybody. It will say something like &amp;quot;INDCNT ASSAULT VICTIM UNDER 12 YO&amp;quot;. Try explaining &lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt; to employers.</text></comment>
<story><title>A dad took photos of his toddler for a doctor – Google flagged him as a criminal</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveillance-toddler-photo.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>The similarity is because it&amp;#x27;s an example of something other cultures see as normal, or at least harmless, but in the US it is seen as an egregious offense.&lt;p&gt;Not hard for me to imagine a 7 year old American getting expelled and potentially prosecuted for trying to play a &amp;quot;Kancho&amp;quot; prank on a friend.</text></item><item><author>therealdrag0</author><text>Similar in South Korea: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.thesun.co.uk&amp;#x2F;travel&amp;#x2F;5476857&amp;#x2F;south-korean-game-dong-chim&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.thesun.co.uk&amp;#x2F;travel&amp;#x2F;5476857&amp;#x2F;south-korean-game-do...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;But what does this have to do with nudity or destroying lives? Seems totally off base.</text></item><item><author>elif</author><text>in japan, children play a game called Kancho, where they put their index fingers together and try to insert it into the anus of their unsuspecting friend.&lt;p&gt;in america, you could destroy someone&amp;#x27;s life over that. (possibly even multiple lives)</text></item><item><author>Wowfunhappy</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;s quite as strict as you&amp;#x27;re making it out to be.&lt;p&gt;I was in a park in Manhattan last week, which had a bunch of big sprinklers for kids to run through. No one was naked in the sprinkler, but some parents helped their children change in&amp;#x2F;out of their bathing suits out in the open.&lt;p&gt;(Then again, I only remember this because I was a tad surprised by it.)</text></item><item><author>elif</author><text>From my travels, my impression has been that America in particular treats child nudity as completely, unexceptionally obscene, beyond even adult nudity.&lt;p&gt;Compared to a beach in Europe, where nearly half of children under 2 run naked, there seems to be no grey area or minimum acceptability in the US.&lt;p&gt;It makes me wonder if our hypersexualized treatment of child nudity &amp;#x2F;actively contributes&amp;#x2F; to the sexualization of children in our culture.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adventured</author><text>And many normal cultural things in the US would be regarded as an egregious offense in Japan (which has a very rigid, conservative, homogenous culture).&lt;p&gt;So what.</text></comment>