You’re Invited! Critical Event RE: Protecting Children from Pornography
The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) will host a press briefing at our office addressing the critical Supreme Court case FSC v. Paxton, regarding Texas' age verification law to restrict children’s exposure to online pornography. You are invited to attend!
This is the most significant case to come before the Supreme Court on the issue of pornography in 20 years! The Court’s decision will lay the foundation, either for good or for bad, for protecting future generations from exposure to online pornography.
The briefing will be held in-person at the NCOSE office but will also be available for livestream access here:
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Rotten Ratings: 24 Hours in Apple's App Store
Heat Initiative recently released a scathing report
about the Apple App Store, revealing the lack of proper safeguards that leave children highly at-risk for sexual exploitation. Below are some of the most alarming findings:
Within 24 hours, they found
200+ risky or inappropriate apps in the Apple App Store rated as appropriate for kids as young as 4.
Heat Initiative and ParentsTogether Action found
more than 24 sexual games in the Apple App Store rated as appropriate for kids as young as 4.
Many of these games included language like
"adult party game" or "XXX spicy"
in the app titles and descriptions, which should have been a clear indicator these apps are not appropriate for kids.
The "Shock My Friends" app's primary purpose is to deliver mild shocks to players as part of a roulette game, but the app advertises other games: truth or dare and the drinking game King’s Cup. A number of user reviews complain that the game, while marketed to kids, contains inappropriate adult themes.
One review by a child user:
“...it had inappropriate content and questions like ‘have you ever made out with a stranger’ and I’m like what? I’m TEN.”
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ACTION: Appeal to Apple to do More to Safeguard Children!
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The Children of CDA 230: Story Spotlight
Eleven-year-old Jasmine (pseudonym)
had heard about this website, Omegle, where users are connected with random strangers whom they can video chat and text with. Her friends mess around with it sometimes to troll people and have some laughs. But when Jasmine took a look at it herself one day, she discovered a very nefarious side of Omegle.
Jasmine was recruited and manipulated on Omegle by a man in his 30s, who forced her to send sexually explicit images and videos to him for three years. The man even forced her to use Omegle to recruit more kids for him to exploit and abuse.
This man should be held accountable for his sickening crimes,
but what about Omegle? Shouldn't they face a punishment for allowing this all to happen right under their nose?
Unfortunately, the Communications Decency Act Section 230 gives tech companies, like Omegle, immunity from taking responsibility for the malevolent behavior that occurs on its platform. Even when preventable tragedies, like this one occur, these companies are not motivated to make safety changes because they do not fear repercussions.
CDA 230 is the single greatest enabler of sexual exploitation in the digital age
. It
must
be repealed or reformed.
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ACTION: Urge Congress to Reform CDA 230!
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Reuters:
Enslaved on OnlyFans: Women describe lives of isolation, torment and sexual servitude
On an August morning in 2022, a young woman slipped out of a house in suburban Wisconsin and dashed to a waiting police car.
Her hands shaking, she told officers it was the “most brave thing I’ve ever done in my life.”
For nearly two years, her boyfriend had held her captive, prosecutors say. She feared he’d kill her if she tried to leave. But she started plotting her escape, secretly messaging family and friends to alert police.
The young woman later explained her desperation to detectives: Almost every night, her boyfriend had forced her to record sex acts on camera to sell online. Among his chosen outlets was OnlyFans, the hugely successful website famous for porn.
OnlyFans says it empowers content creators, particularly women, to monetize sexually explicit images and videos in a safe online environment. But a Reuters investigation found women who said they had been deceived, drugged, terrorized and sexually enslaved to make money from the site.
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ACTION: Demand the DOJ Investigate OnlyFans for Sex Trafficking and CSAM!
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