NCOSE 2024 Dirty Dozen List Revealed!
The 2024 Dirty Dozen List has been revealed!
This year, the list of 12 mainstream contributors to sexual exploitation includes Big Tech companies, online retailers, and even a U.S. law that is at the root of all tech platform’s failure to prioritize safety.
The reveal of the list officially launches a powerful campaign where YOU join us in calling out 12 mainstream corporations, institutions, and other entities that facilitate and profit from sexual exploitation. With a few clicks of a button, you can contact corporate executives and U.S. legislators, urging them to take the necessary actions to prevent sexual abuse and exploitation.
Are you ready to jump in and start taking action?
Apple
Apple’s record is rotten when it comes to child protection. This Big Tech titan refuses to detect child sex abuse material, hosts dangerous apps with deceptive age ratings and descriptions, and won’t default safety features for teens. Learn More & Take Action.
Cash App
“Do more with your money” shouldn’t apply to buying sex and paying for abusive content. This peer-to-peer payment app appeals to pimps, predators, and pedophiles looking for a covert way to conduct criminal activity. Learn More & Take Action.
Communications Decency Act Section 230 (CDA 230)
The Greatest Enabler of Online Sexual Exploitation. Misinterpretations of Communications Decency Act Section 230 grant Big Tech blanket immunity for any and all types of sexual abuse and exploitation they facilitate. Until we amend CDA 230, corporations can’t be held accountable! Learn More & Take Action.
Cloudflare
Providing a platform for sex buyers, traffickers, and deepfakers. Cloudflare says it wants to build a better internet. So why does it provide services to some of the most prolific prostitution forums and deepfake sites? Learn More & Take Action.
Discord
Discord’s a hotspot for dangerous interactions and deepfakes. This platform is popular with predators seeking to groom kids and with creeps looking to create, trade, or find sexually abusive content of children and unsuspecting adults. Learn More & Take Action.
The world’s largest professional network is an amateur when it comes to stemming sexual exploitation. LinkedIn legitimizes Pornhub and other exploitative enterprises by providing them a platform, overlooks users promoting deepfake pornography tools, and fails to stop rampant sexual harassment against women. Learn More & Take Action.
Meta
“Moving fast” and making money at all costs leaves children to pay the price. Meta’s launch of end-to-end encryption, open-sourced AI, and virtual reality are unleashing new worlds of exploitation, while its platforms – like Instagram – continue to rank among the most dangerous for kids. Learn More & Take Action.
Microsoft’s GitHub
Microsoft’s GitHub is the global hub for creating sexually exploitative AI tech. The vast majority of deepfakes, “nudify” apps, and AI-generated child sex abuse content originate on this platform owned by the world’s richest company. #deepfakehub Learn More & Take Action.
Reddit is riddled with sexploitation. Child sex abuse material, sex trafficking, and image-based sexual abuse hide in plain sight among endless pornography subreddits allowed on this platform…content which will be further monetized now that Reddit is public. Learn More & Take Action.
Roblox
Roblox treats child protection like a game. Among the avatars, blocks, and buildings, kids are exposed to predators, rape-themed games, and age-inappropriate content like sex parties. Learn More & Take Action.
Spotify
“Music Porn for everyone.” Sexually explicit images, sadistic content, and networks trading child sex abuse material on its platform prove Spotify is out of tune with basic child safety measures and moderation practices. Learn More & Take Action.
Telegram
Known as the “dark web alternative,” Telegram unleashes a new era of exploitation. Messaging app Telegram serves as a safe haven for criminal communities across the globe. Sexual torture rings, sextortion gangs, deepfake bots, and more all thrive on an alarming scale. Learn More & Take Action.
Watchlist*
Snapchat
Where a child’s life can change forever in a snap. Content on Snapchat may be fleeting, but the impact of sextortion, grooming, and child sex abuse can last a lifetime. This app is dangerous by its very design. Learn More & Take Action.
*By placing Snapchat on the Watchlist, NCOSE is recognizing recent progress the company has made, while still urging it to take further necessary steps.
This article was originally written and published by the National Center on Sexual Exploitation on April 10, 2024.