A surprising new study indicates that an overwhelming majority of Dark Web traffic is driven by the darkest activity: the sexual abuse of children.
Inside the shutdown of the 'world's largest' child sex abuse website
Hackers found the dark web site just weeks after the U.S. government did.
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Every day, people’s most intimate moments are recorded, uploaded and circulated online without their consent. This gross invasion of privacy – commonly known as ‘revenge pornography’ – has become p...
From Non-consensual Pornography to Image-based Sexual Abuse: Charting the Course of a Problem with Many Names
Every day, people’s most intimate moments are recorded, uploaded and circulated online without their consent. This gross invasion of privacy – commonly known as ‘revenge pornography’ – has become p...
Deepfake ‘Nudify’ Technology Is Getting Darker—and More Dangerous
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What the Internet Is Teaching Young Men About Desire
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Sex Workers Built the Internet
An internet history that centers sex workers’ voices and experiences
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An internet history that centers sex workers’ voices and experiences
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Bringing Sexy Back
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The Slow Death of Online Safety
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I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous
Objectification, hate, rape threats: the politicians debating online abuse mean well, but to truly understand, they need to see what I see
Sexually Explicit Deepfake Sites Target 100-Plus Politicians in Europe
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The main changes that will happen is due to regulators being intensively focused on ‘protecting the children’. So more labels on adult content and more divisions between people who identify as minors and people posting adult content. They continue to add to the list - gov.uk/government/news/new-laws-to-t…
New laws to target online abuse and pornography
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