18 Inches of Daylight

“Give me 18 inches of daylight, that’s all I need,” Hall of Fame Running Back Gayle Sayers stated unequivocally when he played. That was all he needed, a small crack, a narrow opening in the line of the defense, to break through into the secondary, and run for a touchdown. He did that 22 times in his Rookie-of-the-Year season in 1965, and 6 times alone versus San Francisco that year. He exploited small openings and tiny cracks as he ran his way to Canton, Ohio.

Last week, tech giant Apple announced a new feature that will allow it to scan the photos on our iPhones and iPads to detect if they contain sexually explicit imagery involving children which they will report to the authorities. On the surface, this sounds like a great idea. Who is not for protecting children? Who wouldn’t be willing to do whatever is necessary to catch the evil people who sexually exploit our youth? The proponents of this feature will claim if you are not for Apple doing this, then you are for child pornography. But in reality, this is their “18 inches of daylight”. This is their crack in the line of defense. Apple and big tech do not care about child pornography. In the fall of 2020, at the same time that Twitter and other social media platforms were banning Donald Trump and other conservatives’ accounts, they were allowing pedophiles to use their platforms with impunity to aid in their exploitation of children.