Lyft and Uber: Fighting sexual assault in the transportation industry through transparency

We are pleased to give the Dignity Defense Award to Uber and Lyft, two ride-sharing companies who have stepped up as industry leaders in the fight against sexual violence. 

Sexual assault and harassment on transportation services is a far too common occurrence, so much so that Congress considers new legislation to help combat the issue.

Popular rideshare companies, Uber and Lyft, have not been immune to this tragic trend. However, unlike other institutions that try to bury sexual assault cases, Uber and Lyft have taken the opposite approach: bringing the problem to light in order to root it out ad protect their clients and employees.

Long Overdue Legal Accountability for Sexual Exploitation Through Social Media

Thanks to the brave voices of survivors and the collective efforts of law firms, advocates, journalists, and more, groundbreaking progress has been and is being made in this space.

For example, in the past year class action lawsuits have been filed against Pornhub, Twitter, and Xvideos for distributing abuse videos. The progress these lawsuits have been making through the courts is historic in the way it challenges assumptions of blanket immunity under CDA 230. Judges are speaking out against the overly broad interpretation of CDA 230 immunity and calling for the law to be updated or clarified. 

In this episode of the Ending Sexploitation podcast, Peter Gentala (Senior Legal Counsel at the NCOSE Law Center) emphasizes that “we are at an inflection point” and now is the time to make a difference. 

It is Long Overdue for Mark Zuckerberg and Meta to Be Leaders in Combatting CSAM

The #BeBraveZuck campaign aims to put pressure on Meta to adopt a CSAM-focused shareholder resolution that asks the company to report on “the risk of increased sexual exploitation of children as their company develops and offers additional privacy tools such as end-to-end encryption.”  

The #BeBraveZuck campaign has requested that interested individuals and organizations use the social media toolkit to post content May 23-25 to coincide with the Meta shareholders meeting on May 25.

TikTok Under Federal Investigation for Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)

TikTok needs to do much more to protect minors from predators, exposure to sexual content, and pornographic websites.

We (and others like the National Association of Attorney Generals) have been pressing on TikTok to give more control to parents and to proactively moderate content because even our own research confirms what the Wall Street Journal found: under an account we created as being for a 13-year-old, we were easily able to find videos promoting OnlyFans, as well as other pornography and prostitution sites despite the fact that this type of material is against TikTok’s Community Guidelines.

TikTok and all social media companies must be accountable for the environments they create, especially when their insufficient policies and practices leave so much room for exploitation, abuse, and harm. 

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