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Users' rights would be infringed under a EU plan to screen all WhatsApp, iMessage and Snapchat accounts for child abuse content, according to internal legal advice warning that the measure would probably be annulled by the courts. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/08/eu-lawyers-plan-to-scan-private-messages-child-abuse-may-be-unlawful-chat-controls-regulation

"Online services will censor user content and accounts to mitigate the companies’ legal exposure. This will harm all internet users who rely on intermediaries to connect with their communities and the world at large." https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/stop-csam-act-improved-still-problematic

"In the name of fighting crime, the EARN IT Act treats all internet users like we should be in a permanent criminal lineup, under suspicion for child abuse." https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/dangerous-earn-it-bill-advances-out-committee-several-senators-offer-objections

"Motives for consuming animated pornography appear to have more to do with escapism and fantasy situations than interest in children. It appears unlikely that animated pornography has an effect on sexuality..."
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/women-who-stray/202305/is-there-a-link-between-animated-pornography-and-pedophilia

Likely under pressure from morality group NCOSE, Amazon has instituted a new wave of anime figure bans for "promoting child sex exploitation". https://boundingintocomics.com/2023/05/08/amazon-unleashes-new-wave-of-anime-figure-bans-claims-they-promote-child-exploitation/

An anti-war painting that a court refused to censor as child exploitation has now been defaced by a protestor. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/controversial-miriam-cahn-painting-vandalized-2297547
Here's the court's ruling on the previous censorship attempt.

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Join @WoodhullFreedom at a free conversation on how censorship has impacted adult performers, how porn can be beneficial for sex education, and how it affirms sexual freedom. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/censored-pleasure-porn-free-expression-sexual-freedom-tickets-630398658357

We signed the @dontdelete.art manifesto along with 1,800 artists and institutions because censoring art from social media is censoring constitutionally protected self-expression. Join us and sign here: www.dontdelete.art.

From Japanese nonprofit NPO Uguisu Ribbon, three new author's talks from @JudithLevine, @jilliancyork, and Nadine Strossen on pornography, sex, children, and human rights. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxKRSdB09l4hVy0QgZOU217__6HJ_F4uH

Twitter has banned @VirPedSpeaks, one of the platform's last bastions for non-offending MAPs. This is despite years of warnings from child protection experts that such bans make it harder to prevent child sexual abuse.
Read an open letter from 2018: https://prostasia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Letter-to-Twitter-re-MAPs.pdf

@FSCArmy's Capitol Hill Fly-In is your opportunity to meet with members of Congress or their key staff to communicate how financial discrimination affects your business and the adult industry.https://action.freespeechcoalition.com/dc/

"Reporting numbers to the CyberTipline program sponsored by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), however, indicate that adult content prohibitions have little to do with image-based sexual abuse prevention." https://www.ynot.com/does-banning-adult-social-media-prevent-csam/

Corporal punishment is child abuse. And it's legal in many parts of the world, including in many schools.

Abolish corporal punishment worldwide now! #EndCorporalPunishment https://www.end-violence.org/sites/default/files/2023-04/Corporal%20Punishment%20-%2010%20key%20messages%202022%20%281%29.pdf

"The final prong is tertiary prevention, or the prevention of further harm once harm has already happened." https://prostasia.org/blog/primary-prevention-basics/

https://prostasia.org/campaign/stop-earnit/ #EarnIt #EarnItAct

"Yet Congress is debating, for a third time, the EARN IT Act (S. 1207)—a bill that would threaten encryption, and instead seek to impose universal scanning of our messages, photos, and files." https://act.eff.org/action/the-earn-it-act-is-back-seeking-to-scan-us-all

"The second prong is secondary prevention, basically the application of everything in primary prevention, but targeted towards at-risk groups:" https://prostasia.org/blog/primary-prevention-basics/