On Sunday, the New York Times published a ruin-your-day (slash week slash year slash life), can’t-unsee report on the proliferation of child sexual abuse imagery online (the material is frequently referred to as “child pornography,” but the article states that “experts prefer terms like child sexual abuse imagery or child exploitation material to underscore the seriousness of the crimes and to avoid conflating it with adult pornography, which is legal for people over 18"). It is as harrowing as it is crucial, at times nearly impossible to read and yet urgently important.
published a ruin-your-day , can’t-unsee report on the proliferation of child sexual abuse imagery online . It is as harrowing as it is crucial, at times nearly impossible to read and yet urgently important.
Journalists Michael H. Keller and Gabriel J.X. Dance comb through failures on several fronts—that of tech companies, the Justice Department, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children—to help answer the question in their story’s headline: “” It includes several descriptions of confiscated imagery of children being abused and tortured.
People who actively post and view these abuse images do so via modern methods of hyper-privacy: VPNs, encryption, and the dark web. Such advances in technology combine with tech’s sluggish responses to create a perfect storm of opportunity. Meanwhile, the Center for Missing & Exploited Children is still using technology from 1998 to receive and review reports of this material—you’ll note that said technology predated the iPhone by some 10 years.
A spokeswoman for the center said it was common to expect corporations to provide financial assistance to charities. But the practice, others working in the area of child protection say, could elevate the interests of the tech companies above the children’s. “There’s an inherent conflict in accepting money from these companies when they also sit on your board,” said Signy Arnason, who is a top executive at the equivalent organization in Canada, known as the
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