Child sexual abuse material is on the rise online. Will lawmakers and big tech finally act?

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

Talk Show, News, On Point, Daily, Npr

4.3 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

There is more child sexual abuse content online than ever before. And not just on the dark web, but on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat. What can the major tech companies do to stop it?

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0:00.0	Jane loved crisps. She ate them for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
0:05.5	Even at fancy pants restaurants.
0:07.6	Your crisps, Madame.
0:08.9	Years went by, but then crisps stopped doing it for her.
0:12.7	They got her thrown out of cinemas.
0:15.9	And were forever in the bedsheets.
0:19.6	crisps.
0:20.7	They're kind of like your current account.
0:22.7	Just because they were good ones doesn't mean you have to stick with them forever.
0:26.4	Maybe it's time to switch with the current account switch service.
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0:41.2	Jane remembers looking at the message on her phone.
0:44.8	It was January 20th, 2020.
0:47.7	It was like 1130 at night and I thought a text from an associate at work asking me
0:53.8	is your son so and so.
0:55.7	And I said yes and they said, well, he is on the phone with my niece right now.
1:02.0	And he's discussing that he doesn't want to live anymore and he is suicidal.
1:07.0	Jane's son, John was 16.
1:09.9	He was thriving in class in baseball at church.
1:13.2	So she thought, you've got the wrong kid here.
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