How Congress is trying to end child abuse online

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🗓️ 2 June 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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A closer look at two bills which aim to deal with the issue of online child abuse, including the EARN IT Act, which raises major privacy concerns. Featuring: Assem Khaled (@Lyserberg) Adi Robertson (@thedextriarchy) Aaron Mackey (@aaron_d_mackey) Links to resources discussed: Can gaming solve its predator problem? New bill would put $5 billion toward fighting online child abuse The EARN IT Bill Is the Government’s Plan to Scan Every Message Online Host: Arielle Duhaime-Ross (@adrs), host and lead reporter of Reset About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0	Always read the label. this episode covers the issue of online child abuse.
0:45.0	Back in January, Reset made an episode about child predators using online gaming and chat websites.
0:51.0	And at the end of that episode, we did a call out to listeners which is how we got
0:56.4	to hear from awesome. If we don't tackle this issue quick enough I think it would
1:01.5	cast a long shadow on the gaming community as complacent
1:05.7	in this sort of behavior.
1:07.5	Osm Kaled is a blogger who lives in a small town in northern Algeria. He's also a gamer and he says he's witnessed a lot of
1:14.9	questionable behavior on multiplayer online games and chat platforms like
1:19.2	discord. We were in a discord server noticing the two people who were involved so the predator and prey
1:27.1	They were interacting very weirdly and very sexually on discord and in that case it was the adult just unconventionally sort of
1:36.4	inappropriate towards someone else and the other person not quite
1:41.0	understanding what that meant.
1:45.0	We did our fair share of work to sort of investigate what was happening and you know this is definitely a child.
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