By the way, Thorn put out a statement saying this:
"Norms in relationships are changing."
"More than two in three minors (69%) who have shared their own "Self Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material" with someone they knew offline said it was with a boyfriend or girlfriend, up from just over half (54%) in 2021."
First off, Thorn is hardly what I'd call a reliable source (it's also not clear that data actually supports that).
Secondly, even here, they're incapable of not inserting emotionally manipulative nonsense terms. Is it appropriate or acceptable? Well, there is a question to be had about that. Maybe. But, pretending it is the same as "abuse" is absurd.
They know exactly what they're doing. They do it deliberately.
"with someone they knew offline said it was with a boyfriend or girlfriend"
"it's also not clear that data actually supports that"
For instance, you could imagine the case of a scanning company butting into such relationships more intrusively.
Also, it could well be higher than that, as someone could specifically use an app that is safer for something like that (i.e. more secure). #chatcontrol
Also, regardless of what someone thinks of that practice of minors sexting with each other, having all these personal images being collected in mass and stored in databases to be viewed by unknown persons (and passed around among various cop agencies) is quite disturbing (and far less secure than if it were not).
The police are also not really the appropriate party to be dealing with such matters. #chatcontrol
For some extras, originally the phrase was an acronym, but I expanded it out for you (as I don't presume that everyone knows every bit of jargon), and added the quotes.
Also, the article attached to it is even more explicit and direct about that relationship language "among minors", and they're also pretty explicit that that is what they mean with the jargon.
