National Center on Sexual Exploitation

🎉 Microsoft’s GitHub Takes a Major Step in the Fight Against AI-Generated Sexual Abuse After years of concern, GitHub—owned by Microsoft—has updated its policies to ban projects that promote AI-generated image-based sexual abuse (IBSA). This change comes after being highlighted on NCOSE’s Dirty Dozen List, and thanks to the continued advocacy of people like you! 🙌 This victory is a step toward creating a safer online world, and it sets an important precedent for the tech industry. Read the full story of how community action helped spark this important change. 👇 https://lnkd.in/gXYcuPFM #Victory #EndExploitation #AIGeneratedAbuse #DirtyDozenList #TechResponsibility #Microsoft #NCOSE

Movement: Episode 4 is out now‼️ 🗣️ Join us in the conversation to combat image-based sexual abuse! 🎉 This week, we celebrate some recent victories and discuss the progress from our dirty dozen list. The Dirty Dozen list holds 12 mainstream companies accountable each year that are profiting from or facilitating sexual abuse and exploitation. So far, we have seen significant progress from Cash App, Microsoft’s GitHub, and Meta! ➡️ Episode 4 also touches on our fight toward passing the PROTECT Act and the SCREEN Act with help from Senator Lee 👏 These are major victories, but still more progress needs to be made! That is why it is so important that Senator Lee has joined our efforts! 💬 Read the full blog post and share your thoughts! 🔗 Click this link: https://bit.ly/4hM9rzk #MovementSeries #Episode4 #EndExploitation #NCOSE #DirtyDozenList #DDL2024

🗣️Sexual consent can’t be bought‼️ The very nature of prostitution is that sex buyers use money to persuade prostituted persons into accepting unwanted sex. If the sex was wanted, no money would be required. The gold standard of ‘enthusiastic consent’ is meaningless in prostitution. A reluctant concession is not that same as genuinely wanting sex. The #MeToo movement overlooks this aspect of consent, but NCOSE is committed to upholding the truth that consent can’t be bought. 📢 🤝 Take action and help us expose this blind spot by sharing the blog! 🔗 Click here to read the full blog: https://buff.ly/4f474Gj #EndDemand #EndExploitation #NCOSE #NCOSEBlog #NCOSE #Consent #MeToo

WRAP week is this week! Celebrate with us! 🎉 ➡️ WRAP stands for White Ribbon Against Pornography and was created in 1987 to combat the societal harms of pornography. Founded by Norma Norris, the WRAP campaign has helped bring the fight against pornography to the center stage‼️ WRAP provides an important platform for raising awareness about the public health concerns surrounding pornography. 💬 Join the conversation by reading the history of WRAP week at buff.ly/3AmAEaH and share your thoughts! #WRAPweek #NormaNorris #EndExploitation #NCOSE #NCOSEBlog #WhiteRibbonAgainstPornography

🗣️Demand fuels sexual exploitation!! Ending exploitation means ending demand🤝 Sex trafficking exists because the male demand for people in prostitution outweighs the ‘supply’ of willing people The marketplace has an innate predatory dependence on targeting vulnerable populations. For most people, prostitution is NOT a choice! 💬 Share YOUR thoughts on demand fueling the sex trade👇 visit buff.ly/3AmAEaH to read the full blog post‼️ #StoptheDemand #EndExploitation #NCOSEBlog #NCOSE #EndSexTrafficking

🎙️ Our CEO, @Dawn Hawkins, recently joined @Nicki Reisberg on the *Scrolling2Death* podcast for a dynamic conversation on protecting children from online harm, balancing motherhood and leadership, and why advocating for the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is critical right now. With Dawn’s passion for combating sexual exploitation and her personal approach to homeschooling and screen time, this episode is packed with actionable insights for parents and advocates alike. 🎙️ Tune in and join the conversation! Drop a comment below after you listen, and let us know how YOU think we can better protect our kids in today’s digital world. 🔗 https://buff.ly/40n6ChH #Scrolling2Death #DawnHawkins #KOSA #KidsSafety #OnlineProtection #DigitalWellbeing

New blog post is out now‼️ Should we normalize prostitution as “work”? No, prostitution is NOT the same as being an athlete or a secretary. 💭Why? 1. Equating prostitution as a job invalidates the trauma of rape and sexual assault. 2. Prostitution is radically different from real work. 3. Psychological traumas should not be a consequence of work. NCOSE’s new blog post is a part of a series about exposing the myths from the pro-prostitution lobby. Rather than legitimizing prostitution as a form of work, we need to recognize it for the exploitation that it is. 📢 Read the full blog post and share your thoughts💬 Click here: https://buff.ly/3C1hIis Consider reading part 1 first: https://buff.ly/3YpVnDP

🗣️ You need to know about these 5 different types of image-based sexual abuse (IBSA)‼️ IBSA is a broad term that encompasses the creation, manipulation, theft, extortion, threatened or actual distribution, or the use of images for a sexual purpose without meaningful consent. 1. AI-generated forged pornography 2. Non-consensual distribution of sexually explicit material (NCDSEM) 3. Sexual extortion (sextortion) 4. Recording sexual violence (RSV) 5. Video voyeurism (VV) According to a survey from the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, 1 in 8 respondents had been a victim of IBSA in one form or another. It is important to understand the different types of IBSA in order to recognize victimization and build solutions💪 It only takes an instant for anyone to become a victim of this exploitation. TAKE ACTION: ask Congress to pass legislation combatting IBSA! To read the full article, click this link: https://buff.ly/3YirnbP Or visit buff.ly/3AmAEaH #endexploitation #NCOSE #ibsa #ncdsem #vv #sextortion #csam

Roblox just announced new child safety changes. After 2 years on our Dirty Dozen List, this announcement confirms how dangerous the gaming platform really is. To learn more watch Nicki Reisberg's excellent breakdown below. ⬇️ To Take Action and hold Roblox accountable click here: https://lnkd.in/gGGUuGCa

NCOSE found “A Tsunami of ‘Nudifying Apps’ Advertised on Meta Platforms.” These ads are fueling an ecosystem of AI-generated sexually exploitative material. Nudifying apps are a form of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) when the images depict children, and a form of image-based sexual abuse when they depict adults. 1 in 10 kids say their friends or classmates have used AI to generate CSAM of other children. Meta is on NCOSE’s 2024 dirty dozen list for failing to implement necessary changes to stop the promotion of material like this. Click this link to read the full blog post: nudifying apps Help us take action and CALL ON CONGRESS to pass crucial legislation combatting CSAM and IBSA Visit this resource: Call on Congress