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  • This is about the time when I start talking about politics that the internet trolls tell me to stick to my day job.

  • So I'd like to talk about my day job.

  • My day job is as the chairman and the co-founder of Thorn.

  • We build software to fight human trafficking and the sexual exploitation children,

  • that's our core mission.

  • My other day job is that of the father of two,

  • a two-month-old and a two-year-old.

  • And it's part of that job that I take very seriously.

  • I believe that it is my effort to defend their right to pursue happiness,

  • and to ensure a society and government that defends it as well.

  • As part of my anti-trafficking work, I've met victims in Russia,

  • I've met victims in India, I've met victims that've been trafficked from Mexico.

  • Victims in New York and New Jersey and all across our country.

  • I've been on FBI raids where I've seen things that no person should ever see.

  • I've seen video content of a child that's the same age as mine,

  • being raped by an American man that was a sex tourist in Cambodia.

  • And this child was so conditioned by her environment that she thought she was engaging in play.

  • I've been on the other end of a phone call from my team asking for my help.

  • Because we've received a call from the Department of Homeland Security,

  • telling us that a 7-year-old girl was being sexually abused and that content was being spread around the dark web.

  • And she had been abused and they'd watched her for three years,

  • and they could not find the perpetrator.

  • Asking us for help.

  • We were the last line of defense.

  • An actor and his foundation were the potential last line of defense.

  • That's my day job, and I'm sticking to it.

This is about the time when I start talking about politics that the internet trolls tell me to stick to my day job.

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