| Jane Doe and the NCOSE Law Center have won a groundbreaking victory in their lawsuit against XVideos, the largest pornography website in the world! As a child, Jane Doe was sex trafficked; videos of her commercialized rape were uploaded to and monetized by XVideos. XVideos attempted to dismiss Jane Doe's lawsuit by arguing that it is outside U.S. jurisdiction, due to the fact that its parent company is based in the Czech Republic. However, in a recent ruling, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed this argument! The importance of this ruling cannot be overstated; it carves out a path to justice not only for Jane Doe but for countless other American children as well! The court's decision ensures that foreign websites cannot avoid accountability in the United States, on jurisdictional grounds, when those websites target the U.S. market and profit from child sexual abuse material of U.S. children. | |
| Listen to this important podcast episode from Betrayal Trauma Recovery, interviewing NCOSE's Rachel Moran: "The concept of consent is the biggest part of the problem. People say to themselves, oh, well, she consented. And as long as those women are consenting, well, then no harm, no foul. But the term consent and the concept of consent is misplaced – not only in prostitution, but in conversations about every kind of sexual exchange. Because sex is supposed to be about mutuality, not consent... The thing is that there is a daily tsunami of abuse and violation that’s not only covered up, concealed, but actually condoned through the use of the word consent. At this point, I think it’s a frankly dangerous word. In prostitution, it’s a sexual one-way street... Let’s talk about mutuality, sexual mutuality, because what you’re talking about there is a sexual two-way street." | |
| Amid mounting public pressure, Meta announced that it will finally implement what NCOSE has been urging the company to do for years: proactively prevent teens ages 13 – 15 from seeing sexually explicit content, and protecting all teens from harmful subjects such as suicide ideation, self-harm, and eating disorder promotion. We hope that these changes will indeed greatly mitigate the untold harms Meta has both directly caused and indirectly facilitated against its young users for much too long. That being said, we would like Meta to explain why sexually explicit content is not blocked for all teens.
Further, we must not forget that just last month Meta implemented end-to-end encryption (E2EE) on Instagram and Messenger – a devastating blow to child protection. This ‘see no evil’ policy without exceptions for child abuse material has placed millions of children in grave danger. If Meta truly wants to protect children, it must revisit its decision to move to E2EE or prioritize technology to prevent and identify CSAM creation and sharing on its platforms. At the very least, it must roll back E2EE from minor accounts immediately. | |
