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An expert on combatting sexual exploitation said her organization warned social media platforms that once the COVID-19 lockdowns began, predatory grooming and sexual exploitation of children would explode.
During a virtual panel of experts with the National Coalition on Sexual Exploitation, the organization that unveiled its annual “Dirty Dozen List” Tuesday of corporations that allow or profit off sexual exploitation, The Christian Post asked what impact the end of the pandemic might have on those entities.
Jake Roberson, vice president and director of communications at NCOSE, said he hoped “it doesn’t ever take a pandemic or the end of a pandemic for any of these corporations or entities to make their products safer for all users, and especially for children.”
Dirty Dozen not a good list to land on
Thursday, February 25, 2021 |
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Major corporations such as Amazon and Netflix, and the state of Nevada, are being called out by a watchdog group that monitors sexual exploitation on behalf of countless victims around the world.
National Center spokesperson Lina Nealon tells One News Now it is difficult to rank them from first to last because the seriousness of their violations is about equal but one on the list, for example, is shopping platform Wish.
“But they re also one of the largest advertisers on MindGeek,” Nealon points out, “and MindGeek is the parent company of Porn Hub.”
dirty dozen” according to the National Center on Sexual Exploitation.
They are all big censors, but not of child sexual exploitation, a repugnant sin and crime against humanity.
In fairness, they are likely too busy shutting down traditional Americans and religious groups to worry about child sexual exploitation.
The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) named Amazon, Twitter, and Netflix among the 12 companies on its “Dirty Dozen List” released Tuesday that the group says facilitate or profit from sexual abuse and exploitation.
The list began in 2013 attempting to hold mainstream entities accountable. Lina Nealon, director of corporate and strategic initiatives at NCOSE, told the Daily Caller. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, more Americans have depended on e-commerce and social media, which Nealon says made the Dirty Dozen List especially necessary for trying to spark change since children, and the predators seeking to harm them, are spending more time online.
Dirty Dozen List: TikTok adds family safety features helping parents control kids accounts
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Dirty Dozen List: TikTok adds family safety features helping parents control kids accounts
Dirty Dozen List: TikTok adds family safety features helping parents control kids accounts
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After being ranked as one of the worst corporate entities complicit in “perpetuating” sexual exploitation, the social media giant TikTok is giving parents more control over their children’s use of the app through new family safety control features.
Weeks after being named on the National Center for Sexual Exploitation’s annual Dirty Dozen List, the social media video platform with over 500 million users announced new modes available to parents in the U.S. and U.K. to “keep their teens safe on TikTok.”
After a year of weighing the broad impacts of the COVID pandemic, it’s clear that it’s also led to greater sexual exploitation. The center investigating the trend has just released its annual Dirty Dozen List, revealing how the skyrocketing use of the internet contributed greatly to that problem.
We’ve known for years how pornography makes billions of dollars through the Web. In looking at this year’s National Center on Sexual Exploitation Dirty Dozen, the connection of giants like Amazon, Netflix, and Chromebooks to sexual exploitation should set off major alarms in homes across the country.
A sad example of how the pandemic has put millions of children at risk of exposure to porn or being sexually exploited is the soaring use of Google’s Chromebooks for distance learning. Their safety features are often left turned off, or children find workarounds.