Twitter’s child porn problem ruined its plans for an OnlyFans competitor

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by CharlesW • 4 years ago

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tommieb• 4 years ago

Why is the media insisting on the vernacular "child porn" in usage and references to articles? It is child abuse, plain and simple. Something that is often ignored in favour of the former descriptive wording. Editors need to take note of it.

CharlesW• 4 years ago

It is child abuse, plain and simple.

It’s “child porn” specifically because the vast majority of child abuse (including child sexual abuse) is not captured on video and distributed.

Kranar• 4 years ago

Child abuse is a much broader term than child porn, which is a subset of child abuse. Twitter had a more specific issue with child sexual exploitation as opposed to the many other forms of child abuse.

jjeaff• 4 years ago

I don't know any details about this, but is child porn or child abuse an actual problem on the platform or is the problem underage (i.e. 17 yr olds) posting their own nudes on the platform? Because, while not legal, I would not consider it quite the same as child porn or child abuse.

easrng• 4 years ago

How would you distinguish between someone voluntarily posting/selling nudes and someone being coerced?

zaphod12• 4 years ago

I agree with your statement. To elaborate, the appropriate, though somewhat recently coined term, is CSAM - child sexual abuse material. Other coinage normalizes it or minimizes the damage from it.

happyopossum• 4 years ago

Child porn is much more specific and descriptive than child abuse. Yes, it's abuse, but when reporting on a story one usually tries to convey the most information possible, and using a broad, ill-defined term like child abuse would not cut it.

Also, historically in the US 'child abuse' has been the term used to describe beating a child.

mildmotive• 4 years ago

Twitter cannot accurately detect child sexual exploitation and non-consensual nudity at scale

Who would’ve thought?

Well, maybe Twitter will still insist on turning into cyber-pimps. We can only wait and see. In the meanwhile it might be a good time for serious accounts to start moving to other platforms.

siproprio• 4 years ago

In Brazil there’s a practice called “pack do pezinho” where teens advertise selling sexual content on twitter.

Twitter’s child porn problem ruined its plans for an OnlyFans competitor

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