December 22, 2024 10:52 AM

Innocent Children’s Photos Exploited On Social Media; Twitter On Hot Water For Prohibited Photos

In the face of challenges by societal webs to take tough action on child porn, some social media accounts specifically the Twitter users have been trading off prohibited pictures and have used tweets to sexualize otherwise innocent snaps. They instigate as inoffensive selfies or pictures taken by peers or household affiliates. But then, in the eyes of a minor troop of distorted Twitter users, they turn out to be something else completely.

A journalist named Joseph Cox of Vice news' study into this subversive world initiated with a quest of a hashtag which hurled up otherwise guiltless-viewing photographs. "The images are typically teenage girls in their school uniform or a swimsuit. Some have been taken by the girls themselves." As he continues, "It's not clear whether they've then sent them to a boyfriend who's uploaded them, others appear to have been ripped from their social media sites."

"Users were asking to trade pictures of similar aged girls and they were commenting on her appearance and how attractive they found her. Some of the comments did get very explicit," as he added. The images themselves are not censored nor pornographic but then Twitter's procedures are certain that a youngster sensual abuse isn't abided.

Other social systems have also shut down on sexualized or sensual pictures of young ones. In year 2011, Reddit had a parallel subject matter with a setting termed "Jailbait", whereas numerous pictures being shared there weren't prohibited, the site shut it down. The aforementioned journalist, Cox, articulates he was astonished by how agreeably people were talking about child corruption in the columns he has seen. In a report, Twitter stated to BBC Trending that, "We do not abide child sexual corruption or exploitation," and said it works with the established order and system of government as well as the Internet Watch Foundation in the UK to fight the corruption or exploitation of the youngsters.

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