In February 2019, Reddit outlawed the "lolicon" and "shotacon" styles of Japanese manga art, by way of a complete ban on sexually suggestive artistic images of anyone "who...
Category: Internet platforms
Internet companies alone can’t prevent online harms
As the world hunkers down to curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Internet’s ability to keep us in contact with friends, family, colleagues, and the wider world...
Should the Tor network be shut down?
It’s an open secret that the battle against illegal sexual images of minors will never be won through surveillance and censorship, for as long as tools to circumvent...
Facebook and child-spanking fetish groups
Child-spanking fetish groups have managed to find a place on Facebook. On a platform where a bare nipple or buttock is beyond the pale, these spanking groups are not...
Mozilla, DNS-over-HTTPS, and child abuse
Last month, the UK Internet Services Providers’ Association nominated Mozilla as being one of its 2019 internet villains, accusing it of undermining Internet safety...
PayPal fails to shut down Prostasia
Yesterday Prostasia Foundation received notification from PayPal that the account that we use for receiving membership subscriptions and donations had been permanently...
Applying child development principles to online child protection
The “Boogie Man” concept is a useful tool for deterring children from doing things they aren’t supposed to do or to teach them to fear wrongdoing. Negative...
Beyond censorship: the case for a flexible standard
Recently I watched a video of a naked twelve year old girl—a victim of child sex trafficking—being slapped around by an adult who was attempting to photograph her. In...
Furry fandom: untying the knot
Are you comfortable in your own body? Or sometimes, when you close your eyes and dream, do you imagine yourself in a different body—perhaps not even a human body, but...
FOSTA: you’re hurting the people you want to help
On
paper, FOSTA was supposed to be about protecting people like me.
During 2017, when the proposed law was still called SESTA (Stop
Enabling Sex Traffickers Act), I was 17...