4.8 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Roo Powell leads SOSA (Safe from Online Sex Abuse) and goes undercover as a teen with wigs, fake braces, and a staged bedroom. She works with police to catch men targeting kids online. Her work has led to over 70 arrests — every parent should know about this.
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0:00.0 | Hey, it's Kim Commando today, your daily podcast to keep you up to date with all things digital and beyond. |
0:08.1 | And I'd love to have you be a part of our podcast. |
0:10.9 | You can make an appointment to speak with me. |
0:13.2 | Just head over to commando.com. |
0:14.7 | And on the top right, there's a button that says email Kim, fill that out. |
0:17.7 | And that's it. |
0:19.2 | You know, it's pretty dangerous being a kid on social media nowadays. |
0:22.6 | They all hang out on TikTok, Instagram, Snap, you name it. |
0:26.3 | And it's just a matter of time, because you know what's going to happen before some weirdo |
0:30.2 | adult says, ah, this is a great opportunity for me. |
0:34.1 | Well, there are some people in the world that are helping to combat this. And one of them's |
0:38.9 | joining us right now. Her name is Roo Powell. And she's the founder of SOSA, safe from online sex |
0:44.2 | abuse. And she's actually the force behind undercover underage on the Discovery Plus channel. |
0:49.9 | Now, what she does is she poses as a teen online and then ruin her team. They expose these predators and then they work with law enforcement to just bring them down. |
0:58.9 | So Ruth, thanks so much for being here. |
1:00.8 | Thank you for having me. |
1:02.1 | So when was the first time that you posed as a teen online? |
1:06.6 | So I was working at a tech company over five years ago now. |
1:10.8 | And I really wanted to demonstrate the ubiquity of online. So I was working at a tech company over five years ago now, |
1:11.0 | and I really wanted to demonstrate the ubiquity of online predation. |
1:16.2 | So my team, we put together a fake teenager, put her online, |
1:21.8 | so we could demonstrate what happens when a kid goes online. |
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