While the spikes in reports of child exploitation during 2020 are discouraging, thousands of arrests were made, reassuring that there are still people all around the world who are unwilling to let these crimes go unchecked.
UPS announced it would train its delivery drivers to detect signs of trafficking, equipping a total of more than 130,000 drivers and supervisors nationwide to report exploitation.
At least 40 women are suing Mindgeek for allegedly knowingly profiting from images and videos of their sex trafficking nightmares and failing to properly moderate sites owned by Mindgeek for the abusive videos.
Will these changes be enough to prevent abuse and undo the damage that has been done to countless victims of underage content, revenge porn, nonconsensual porn, sex trafficking, sexual exploitation, and other forms of image-based abuse?
The response to the first article was immediate, resulting in Pornhub announcing three major policy changes they say will prevent the sharing and continuous circulation of nonconsensual images and videos.
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To give you a snapshot, reports say local traffickers in some countries were live-streaming an unusually excessive amount of on-demand child sexual abuse during lockdown.
When a local government chooses to acknowledge pornography as a threat to society in a non-binding way, it gives further visibility to the research that shows porn’s harms and sparks further conversations about how we can address it as a society.
