Fake News Media Complains about Elon Musk’s Twitter Crackdown on Illicit Sexual Content
Shane Trejo
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One of the most important aspects of billionaire Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter is his crackdown on illicit sexual content, including child pornography.
Twitter has long been a hub for child pornography where content moderators looked the other way as pedophiles victimized kids on the platform, preferring to use their resources to police conservative speech instead. Those policies have changed immediately under Musk.
I’m not going to post the hashtag for obvious reasons but if any organization, law enforcement or journalist wants me to send them the hashtag information I will. It’s public information but I don’t want to broadcast it because there are still 3 old tweets available.
— Eliza (@elizableu) November 20, 2022
To those who aren’t aware yet, last week Twitter did add a direct reporting option for child sexual exploitation. (ONLY on tweets with content images/videos) this was not previously available and was a separate form that wasn’t easy to find.
I’m grateful to see these changes. pic.twitter.com/AI88XdX9HW
— Eliza (@elizableu) November 20, 2022
It should come as no surprise that the fake news media sees Musk protecting children and stopping filth on the platform as some kind of problem.
NBC News published an article on Wednesday bemoaning how certain prostitutes were sad about losing their Twitter community where they could find more marks to whom they could sell their bodies for cash.
“Starting from scratch is so demoralizing and so humiliating,” said pornography actress Stephanie Michelle. “You feel like all of these platforms are laughing at us, like, ‘Haha, you think that what you have earned is worthy. Well, we can take that away from you in a flash.’”
“So much of sex worker tradition has always been word of mouth because it’s protective,” said Twitter user BotticelliBimbo, a university student who said she got into sex work because of propaganda she read from perverts on Twitter. “It’s like every other marginalized community.”
Big League Politics reported on how Twitter once explicitly allowed pedophiles to discuss the finer points of raping children in their terms of service:
“Social media giant Twitter has quietly amended their terms of service to allow for “discussions related to… attraction towards minors” to be allowed on their platform.
“Discussions related to child sexual exploitation as a phenomenon or attraction towards minors are permitted, provided they don’t promote or glorify child sexual exploitation in any way,” reads Twitter’s terms of service.
Twitter allow noted that they would allow for nude depictions of children on their platform in certain instances.
“Artistic depictions of nude minors in a non-sexualized context or setting may be permitted in a limited number of scenarios e.g., works by internationally renowned artists that feature minors,” they added.
Cantor wrote a letter in Jan. 2018 to John Starr, who works as Director of Trust and Safety with Twitter, with other university academics. The letter urged Twitter to allow pedophiles to network and discuss their attraction to children on the monolithic social media platform.
“Many of us have worked with a group of such non-offending pedophiles, also known as anti-contact MAPs (Minor-Attracted Persons), in a peer support network called Virtuous Pedophiles (@virpeds), as well as in other support networks,” they wrote in their letter.
“Recently, a prominent member of Virtuous Pedophiles, who goes by the pseudonym Ender Wiggin (@enderphile2), had his account permanently suspended by Twitter. At least one other member of the same network, Šimon Falko (@simgiran), also had his account permanently suspended around the same time, and a number of other accounts of non-offending, anti-contact MAPs have since been permanently or temporarily suspended,” they added.”
The fake news media is pining for the good ol’ days of Twitter when children and other people could be freely exploited. This is part of why they are the enemy of the people.
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