New legal precedent could turn social media into open child pornography marketplaces
Technology,Social Media,Pornography,Internet,Child Pornography,Sexual Misconduct,Twitter,Pedophilia
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Our country is facing a critical and urgent question: Do we care if mainstream social media platforms knowingly distribute child sexual abuse material?
Our children face unprecedented danger online, as 13-year-old John Doe discovered after falling victim to an online solicitation from a pretty girl on Snapchat. The pretty girl was not real, but instead a predator who elicited child sexual abuse material from John and his friend.
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