Prostasia Foundation @ProstasiaInc@qoto.org

The American public has spoken several times, and the message is clear: no mass surveillance and other #privacy violations under the guise of "child protection". It's time for congress to stop reintroducting the #EARNITact and pass legislation that actually keeps kids safe.

"The idea of primary prevention is simply to avoid an undesirable outcome in the first place, whether it’s a disease or something else." https://prostasia.org/blog/primary-prevention-basics/

"The EARN IT Act is a trojan horse bill that uses the language of child protection as cover for an insidious agenda to undermine your rights." https://prostasia.org/campaign/stop-earnit/

"The bill would present a Pandora’s box that would strip away online privacy protections and force forms of otherwise legal speech to be chilled, possibly even censored, across the web." https://www.ynot.com/earn-it-act-reintoduced-again/

"The law would undermine digital security for all internet users, impacting private messaging and email app providers, social media platforms, cloud storage providers, and many other internet intermediaries and online services." https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-don-t-outlaw-encrypted-applications

"The universal example of primary prevention is washing your hands before eating so you don’t ingest germs, bacteria, and viruses that may be on them and don’t get sick. Vaccines are another great example." https://prostasia.org/blog/primary-prevention-basics/

New research supports what we've said all along: that banning sex dolls could be doing more harm than good, as they could be a harm reduction outlet. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00224499.2023.2199727?journalCode=hjsr20

"It’s true that Big Tech’s advertising model hurts kids and teens. But age-gating all social media, for anyone under 18? That won’t solve the problem, and it’s a direct attack on millions of young people’s First Amendment rights." https://www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/social-media-bans

"Exodus Cry, an “anti-trafficking” organization inspired by Evangelical Christian and socially conservative beliefs, continues to work against consensual sexual speech and maintains an overtly anti-pornography position through the use of debunked theories" https://www.ynot.com/adult-platforms-changing-better-tell-anti-porn-movement/

"[The bill] would create civil liability for obscenity offenses by any defendant, that either 'engages in the obscenity or knowingly or intentionally benefits from participating in an entity that engages in the obscenity.'" https://www.ynot.com/texas-bill-broad-civil-liability-obscenity/

"The premise of the bill assumes that companies aren’t reporting the child sex abuse material (CSAM) they find, but there’s little to no evidence to support that claim, and the law already requires them to report it. The problem seems to be that law enforcement isn’t doing much with that information." https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/18/earn-it-act-is-back-and-its-still-terribly-destructive/ @mmasnick

"According to the US Department of Justice, adolescents who commit sex offenses account for up to one-third of all sex crimes. In some states, children as young as 8 years old of been placed on sex offender registries." https://azrsol.org/did-you-know-your-child-is-more-likely-to-be-placed-on-the-sex-offender-registry-than-to-be-harmed-by-someone-on-it/

We fight every day to eliminate abusive images from the internet, but we can't do it alone. Be a part of an internet that is safe for all. If you encounter illegal images or videos online, take the time to report them correctly.
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We stand in solidarity with the trans community and are outraged that Twitter is stripping protections from this vulnerable group of people. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/twitter-quietly-edited-its-hateful-conduct-policy-to-drop-transgender-protections/

Child sexual abuse is harmful and unacceptable, and no amount of "normalizing pedophilia" will ever change that. It's time to drop the fearmongering and redouble our efforts as a society to support evidence-based child protection efforts.

“It’s very important the judge has put a clear stop to attempts at circumventing the right to freedom of expression, by way of so-called child protection… It shows one cannot remove an artwork from its context.” https://news.artnet.com/art-world/miriam-cahn-decision-paris-2285399

Politicians who have refused to pass laws banning child marriage, while passing laws that authorize genital inspections of trans children, don't get to hold the moral high ground on child sexual abuse.