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A child protection organization combining an evidence-based approach to child sexual abuse prevention with its commitment to human rights and sex positivity. prostasia.org

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Prostasia Foundation @prostasia.org · 06/09/2025
Prostasia Foundation has closed its doors, but its values and work live on. 🌱 Child protection grounded in dignity, prevention, and human rights continues through many allies and projects. Read more about our legacy and what comes next: prostasia.org/?na=archive&email_id=…
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Prostasia Foundation @prostasia.org · 30/08/2025
Victims and survivors agree: DON’T use the word “pedophile” to refer to a perpetrator of child sexual abuse. nationalcentre.org.au/resource/chil…
Victims and survivors agree: DON’T use the word “pedophile” to refer to a perpetrator of child sexual abuse. https://nationalcentre.org.au/resource/child-sexual-abuse-language-guide/
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Prostasia Foundation @prostasia.org · 30/08/2025
“As we have long known, the sexual abuse of children is not restricted to a few highly prolific, dangerous people who persist in hurting others. Rather, there are enough people with sexual thoughts about children to consider it a public health issue.” safersociety.org/what-should-...
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What Should We Know About the Term “Minor-Attracted Person”?
Author: David Prescott, LICSW, ATSA-F We recently received a phone call at Safer Society from someone who had visited our website and seen the term “minor-attracted person,” also known by the acronym “MAP.” This person was obviously upset and told us that, in his view, this seemed like more o
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Prostasia Foundation @prostasia.org · 27/08/2025
"The Prostasia Foundation is one such group, campaigning to reduce stigma and help MAPs have law-abiding lives. They argue that efforts to combat child sexual abuse are ‘driven by emotion rather than evidence’, which they believe undermines effective prevention." metro.co.uk/2025/08/09/d...
metro.co.uk
I discovered the murky world of 'minor attracted people'
It's even more disturbing than you think.
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Prostasia Foundation @prostasia.org · 27/08/2025
A chunk of silicon is neither a child nor can it be abused. Going after literal chunks of silicon, takes away resources that could be used to help ACTUAL real living & breathing abused children.
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Prostasia Foundation @prostasia.org · 21/08/2025
⚠️ Law enforcement is wasting our tax dollars going after adults using dating/hookup apps to meet up with other adults. Stay safe out there! www.mtracey.net/p/was-an-isr...
mtracey.net
Was an Israeli pedophile really allowed to flee the United States?
The always intelligent and well-informed people of the internet have recently started clamoring for me to address a scandalizing new incident: an Israeli government official, it is said, was arrested ...
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Prostasia Foundation @prostasia.org · 10/07/2025
"He highlighted his case to journalists, stating that appeals are 'largely ignored', business accounts were being affected, and AI was 'labelling ordinary people as criminal abusers'."
bbc.com
Instagram wrongly says some users breached child sex abuse rules
It was "horrible", "stressful" and "isolating" those affected tell BBC News.
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Prostasia Foundation @prostasia.org · 04/07/2025
We need science-based, effective measures to support minor attracted people and other people at risk of CSA. Religion will not save us.
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Prostasia Foundation @prostasia.org · 04/07/2025
The current reactive system meant to protect children is clearly failing. We need proactive supports. CSA is as old as human history, and the way we've always done thing is still not working.
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Prostasia Foundation @prostasia.org · 03/07/2025
We need to stop infantilizing adults. Treating 20-somethings like children distracts from real child protection—and insults both groups.
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Prostasia Foundation @prostasia.org · 03/07/2025
At least some good news. Strong abortion laws help keep women, trans men, and children safe.
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Prostasia Foundation @prostasia.org · 02/07/2025
prostasia.substack.com/p/you-read-a... Five in every hundred people have attractions they didn't choose — and never act on. One of them just told the world. This piece is for everyone still reeling.
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You Read a Pedophile’s Letter. Here’s What to Know Before You React.
You may have recently read a letter titled “You May Have Heard I’m a Pedophile.
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Prostasia Foundation @prostasia.org · 01/07/2025
"Since 2020, Congress has allocated annual dedicated research funding in a bipartisan effort to better understand and prevent child sexual abuse. We strongly urge our national leaders to preserve federal funding for child sexual abuse prevention research."
baltimoresun.com
US must keep funding for child sex abuse prevention | GUEST COMMENTARY
Vital research funding to prevent child sex abuse is under threat, guest contributors write.
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Elena Hung (she/her) @elenahung.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Disabled kids like mine rely on Medicaid to survive; this bill cuts Medicaid. I don't know how else to say that medically complex disabled children will die as a result of this bill.
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NCCPR @nccpr.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Another excellent story from Maine Monitor illustrates urgent need for a law requiring #childwelfare judges to balance any alleged harm in the home against the harm of #fostercare. It should be easy for anyone to see where the balance should have been struck here. www.nccprblog.org/2025/06/in-m...
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In Maine “child welfare” it’s more like 1001 clowns – and there’s nothing funny about them
Tragic life imitating comic art illustrates why Maine – and every other state – needs a “balance of harms” law.   Art …   The movie has a ...
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
No money for Medicaid or SNAP or museums or schools or sidewalks or gun violence prevention or art or libraries. Always money for war.
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
[picks up drum] MASS INCARCERATION IS A QUEER AND TRANS ISSUE, AND ABOLITION IS INEXTRICABLE FROM LGBTQ+ LIBERATION
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.
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Center for Countering Digital Hate @counterhate.com · 21/06/2025
“[YouTube] does not appear to be taking action to address this predictable tactic for keeping Tate’s misogynistic messaging in the limelight and in the feeds of 13-year-old kids.” Our CEO @imranahmed.bsky.social in @yahoonews.com on our latest findings 👇
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YouTube profits from Andrew Tate content despite banning him from platform
Expert accuses platforms of ‘knowingly profit from the spread of hate and harm’ and called on UK and EU regulators to intervene
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Florida police used ICE to arrest nearly 100 sex workers, boasting about the number of immigrants caught. The "human trafficking sting" turned up no actual human trafficking, but in a perverse twist, ICE can now abduct and traffick said "victims" to who knows where, for who knows what.
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ICE helps round up sex workers in Florida
A recent "human trafficking enforcement operation" in Polk County, Florida, led to 244 arrests—albeit none for human trafficking. If this sounds familiar,
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Also not maybe a coincidence, that Missouri's AG also is went after Target's Pride displays using child protection laws. Both the age-verification law and the Target attack use the same "harmful to minors" three-prong standard. This is great firewall stuff.
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Target's 'Pride' campaign potentially violated child protection laws in some states, attorneys general say
Seven U.S. state attorneys general informed Target they are "concerned" the company's "Pride" campaign might have violated their state's child protection laws.
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Prostasia Foundation @prostasia.org · 19/05/2025
"What is happening, she says, is something remarkably akin to the white slavery panic at the turn of the 20th century, with the authorities once again 'stoking these middle-class fears that a savage is coming to take your kid.'" reason.com/2025/05/13/h... @reason.com #MoralPanic #Trafficking
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Airport human-trafficking posters are overstating the risks to young people
"That guy isn't being trafficked by anyone," says sociologist Emily Horowitz.
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 15/05/2025
An update on my reporting from March: RAINN has taken a step further and banned resources for trans people and immigrants. Many had defended RAINN, saying they would still serve trans people. Clearly that was wrong. NYTimes did the recent reporting, but did not cite me.
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Top Sexual Assault Hotline Bans Referrals To Resources For Marginalized Groups
RAINN's decision to stop referring callers to resources for immigrants and LGBTQ+ people reportedly comes in response to Trump's DEI-related threats.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
KOSA is being reintroduced today. It's always been a dangerous censorship bill. But in this environment, with Trump weaponizing every aspect of the Federal government to suppress speech he doesn't like, KOSA is a catastrophic attack on human rights. We have to stop it. StopKOSA.com
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Stop KOSA
KOSA is a censorship bill that won’t make kids safe. Instead, it'll put all internet users at risk, especially youth. If you believe in a free and open internet, tell your lawmakers to reject #KOSA!
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Prostasia Foundation @prostasia.org · 14/05/2025
"Of the 199 words recently restricted or discouraged under the Trump administration as too 'woke' for the federal government, more than 50 are explicitly tied to sex, gender, identity, bodily autonomy, reproduction, and the sexual body." visiblemagazine.com/to-prevent-c... #FreeSpeech #ChildSafety
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To prevent childhood sexual abuse we need to speak up — and protect our words by Ignacio Rivera - VISIBLE Magazine
Of the 199 words recently restricted or discouraged under the Trump administration as too “woke” for the federal government, more than 50 are explicitly tied to sex, gender, identity, bodily…
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Prostasia Foundation @prostasia.org · 11/05/2025
"But the FBI’s elevation of these crimes to the status of a national security threat to America (that they claim could 'bring down society') and even civilization is a panic characteristic of the QAnon movement"
kenklippenstein.com
FBI Echoes QAnon Pedophile Conspiracy
Democrats vow to give FBI a bigger budget
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The latest in censorship idiocy. Alabama advanced a bill that requires a minor's phone to block all "obscene" content But most "porn" is not legally "obscene" "Obscenity" is a narrow category of speech that is *already* illegal to distribute — even to adults The bill does nothing. What's worse...
al.com
Alabama House passes bill requiring activated porn filters on devices used by minors
Lawmakers have proposed similar bills for years but they have not passed.
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Prostasia Foundation @prostasia.org · 22/04/2025
"Mental health providers can face harsh backlash from the public, the media, and politicians for naming MAPs as a client population, speaking about them in humanizing ways, and focusing on their needs rather than portraying them solely as societal risks." www.b4uact.org/wp-content/u...
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Prostasia Foundation @prostasia.org · 21/04/2025
"My theory is that we can reduce pedophilic behavior more than we create it. If an intervention increases pedo behavior in 1% of pedos and decreases it in 99%, I think this is a huge amount of good and we would be terrible people to not do it." @aella.bsky.social aella.substack.com/p/ai-child-p...
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AI Child Porn Will Probably Save Real Children
A defense of my most controversial tweet
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Prostasia Foundation @prostasia.org · 19/04/2025
"A frequent journalistic failure is to treat attraction, fantasy, and criminal behaviour as interchangeable. Legally and clinically they are not."
medium.com
Media Ethics: Responsible Reporting on Minor Attraction and Related Topics
Guidelines and critiques on how journalists should approach such sensitive subjects
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
If you don’t allow your kids to have internet access until they’re like 16 and then just give them a phone they’re likely going to get scammed and abused immediately. This already happens. Kids need to be actively taught digital *literacy* from a young age, that’s the problem
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Ron DeSantis is pushing to let employers schedule children as young as 14 for an unlimited number of hours, including overnight shifts. At the same time, Florida lawmakers are considering a bill that would let employers pay kids below minimum wage. www.orlandoweekly.com/news/florida...
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis pushed for child labor rollbacks behind the scenes, records show
Email communications first obtained by Orlando Weekly through a public records request show that staffers from DeSantis's office emailed draft legislation for Republican lawmakers to file.
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Julie Borst @julielb.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
It seems that every generation has some version of aversion to sex ed. This current version, besides being far removed from reality, also ignores the reality that children who have vocabulary are far less likely to be abused BECAUSE they have the language to report it.
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Prostasia Foundation @prostasia.org · 01/04/2025
#TransDayOfVisibility
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Prostasia Foundation @prostasia.org · 31/03/2025
Arresting an author for fictional stories doesn’t protect children. Real victims need real support, not a distraction from serious child abuse investigations. #childabuse #resources #priorities
people.com
Author Facing Child Abuse Material Charges, Pedophilia Claims amid Criticism Over Book Titled Daddy’s Little Toy: Report
An Australian author is facing child abuse material charges amid criticism over her book titled 'Daddy's Little Toy,' it's been reported.
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Prostasia Foundation @prostasia.org · 28/03/2025
"'Attacking someone so you can make money on social media is a crime,' said District Attorney Christopher L. de Barrena-Sarobe of Chester County, Pa., where the realjuujika attack took place."
nytimes.com
Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral
With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution.
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Prostasia Foundation @prostasia.org · 26/03/2025
🎉 Our parent nonprofit is here: Meet the Center for Online Safety & Liberty (COSL)—a new home for diverse projects defending digital rights, trust & safety, and ethical CSA prevention Prostasia remains independent, now fiscally sponsored by COSL, focused fully on evidence-based CSA prevention (1/3)
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
"Identical bills in Texas would make it a crime for librarians and teachers to provide books or learning materials that contain sexually explicit content, punishable by up to 10 years behind bars." And it's not even "sexually explicit" — they want to criminalize any mention of sex or sexuality.
motherjones.com
Texas bill threatens jail time for teaching books like “The Catcher in the Rye”
It's a pretty "crummy" situation, as Holden Caulfield might say.
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Prostasia Foundation @prostasia.org · 25/03/2025
Australian police do not know how to distinguish fantasy from reality. Do they plan to arrest directors of horror films next?
news.com.au
Sydney author Lauren Tesolin-Mastrosa arrested over ‘pedophilia’ book
The fiction novel, which follows the relationship between an 18-year-old girl and her father’s friend, sparked furore online.
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Meet Brendan Carr, America’s Federal Censorship Chair
usermag.co
Democrats Team Up w MAGA to Censor The Internet
+ Bryan Johnson drama, Spotify podcast porn, West Elm Caleb 2.0, a Cosmo for conservatives, paper straw fans fight back, Bluey supremacy, and a new free speech movement
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 19/03/2025
Coming to a state near you. It's not if but when. "Hungary bans Pride events and plans to use facial recognition to target attenders" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
theguardian.com
Hungary bans Pride events and plans to use facial recognition to target attenders
Amnesty International describes legislation as ‘full-frontal attack’ on country’s LGBTQ+ population
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Prostasia Foundation @prostasia.org · 19/03/2025
Texas thinks that 16 years old should be allowed to marry 60 year olds. They should spend more time protecting actual living human children instead of cartoons. When they needed to pass the bill to protect children, it failed in committee legiscan.com/TX/bill/HB92....
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
🚨 Florida legislators are actively trying to dismantle the Miller test — which determines if the government can ban a book/film/art/music/site. They've proposed requirements that it be evaluated "as a whole" and with respect to it's "redeeming social value" They want to make it easier to censor.
actionnewsjax.com
Florida bill would prohibit districts from considering ‘literary value’ of challenged books
Under the current standard, books deemed to have literary, artistic, scientific or political value when considered in their entirety can still be retained, despite controversial lines or parts.
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Prostasia Foundation @prostasia.org · 15/03/2025
Aside from this likely violating the First Amendment because fiction is constitutionally protected, the government should spend less time "protecting" cartoons and more time protecting actual living human children.
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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick: Statement on the Unanimous Passage of Senate Bill 20 — Stopping AI-Generated Child Pornography - Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick
AUSTIN – Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick issued this statement today following the unanimous passage of Senate Bill 20, Stopping Artificial Intelligence (AI) Generated Child Pornography, by Sen. Pete Flores,…
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EndTheRegistry @endtheregistry.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
You’re at much greater risk of harm from the actions of the federal government right now than from anyone on the sex offense registry. #EndTheRegistry
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Alec Muffett @alecmuffett.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Trump Promises To Abuse Take It Down Act For Censorship, Just As We Warned | Techdirt alecmuffett.com/article/112635 #1StAmendment #TakeItDownAct #censorship #ncii
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Trump Promises To Abuse Take It Down Act For Censorship, Just As We Warned | Techdirt
Quote: “The bill aims to address a legitimate problem — non-consensual intimate imagery — but does so with a censorship mechanism so obviously prone to abuse that the president couldn’t even …
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/03/2025
NEW: Following a ProPublica and Capitol News Illinois investigation, an Illinois lawmaker introduced a bill that aims to protect homeschooled students from abuse or neglect. “Illinois has zero regulations regarding homeschooling — we are not the norm at all,” she said.
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Illinois Has Virtually No Homeschooling Rules. A New Bill Aims to Change That.
Following a ProPublica and Capitol News Illinois investigation, an Illinois lawmaker has introduced legislation that would require families to tell their public school districts if they are homeschooling.
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Prostasia Foundation @prostasia.org · 01/03/2025
Save the Children Denmark has launched TalMedOs, a new anonymous and specialized counseling service for young people concerned about their sexual thoughts and behaviors.
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Prostasia Foundation @prostasia.org · 01/03/2025
"The male helpline has transformed support for male survivors in England and Wales over the last 9-years, yet when the Government need to make savings, support services for males are the first to be cut." safeline.org.uk/news/channel... @safelineuk.bsky.social
safeline.org.uk
Channel 4 News report on the Ministry of Justice cutting the National Male Survivor Helpline - Safeline
Call us now 01926 402 498
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 25/02/2025
TAKE IT DOWN is the wrong approach to helping people whose intimate images are shared without their consent. Instead, it creates a censorship machine that can be weaponized to silence journalists, activists, and everyday users.
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The Senate Passed The TAKE IT DOWN Act, Threatening Free Expression and Due Process
Earlier this month, the Senate passed the TAKE IT DOWN Act (S. 146), by a voice vote. The bill is meant to speed up the removal of non-consensual intimate imagery, or NCII, including videos that imita...
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