Abstract

“I Need You All to Understand How Pervasive This Issue Is”: User Efforts to Regulate Child Sexual Offending on Social Media

Highlights

  • The title of this chapter comes from a tweet made by Twitter user @AvriSapir on May 1, 2020,1 in which she describes her efforts to have videos of her own child sexual abuse removed from Twitter

  • We examine the phenomenon of internet users attempting to report and prevent online child sexual exploitation (CSE) and child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in the absence of adequate intervention by internet service providers, social media platforms, and government

  • With reports of online CSAM to US authorities increasing by 50% per year for the past 20 years (Bursztein et al, 2019), it is undeniable that the structure, administration, and regulation of online services and infrastructure have created a highly enabling environment for online CSE

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Introduction

The title of this chapter comes from a tweet made by Twitter user @AvriSapir (a pseudonym) on May 1, 2020,1 in which she describes her efforts to have videos of her own child sexual abuse removed from Twitter. We examine the phenomenon of internet users attempting to report and prevent online child sexual exploitation (CSE) and child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in the absence of adequate intervention by internet service providers, social media platforms, and government.

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