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Prostasia Foundation
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Prostasia Foundation
@ProstasiaInc
A child protection organization combining an evidence-based approach to child sexual abuse prevention with its commitment to human rights and sex positivity.
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Don't send false reports to child abuse image hotlines.
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Internet Watch Foundation (IWF)
@IWFhotline
In 2019, our analysts assessed more reports than ever before. But only half contained imagery we could action. False reports waste charity resources and can distress our analysts. bit.ly/2FvJkvi
Around the world, innocent people—especially women and sexual minorities—are being prosecuted as criminals for posting art on the Internet. Join us to ask and its members , , and @MissingKids to stop it! prostasia.org/campaign/inhop
A lot of art that's weird, gross, or unsettling gets posted to social media. If it you don't want to see it, the correct response is to block the hashtag it was posted with, or the person who posted it. Don't report it as abuse material, and don't harass or abuse people over it.
Please do not report cartoons as "child exploitation". It wastes limited resources (time/money) that should be spent dealing with reports about ACTUAL children that are in danger. x.com/IWFhotline/sta
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Instagram is reportedly spreading stigmatizing false information about lolicon, the Japanese manga art style. This isn't the first time: they also banned the search term DD/lg, referring to an 18+ consensual kink community and aesthetic.
Fan fiction can be escapism, catharsis, and a million other things. The fact that someone likes fiction that you find gross or upsetting doesn't tell you anything about them. It certainly doesn't give you grounds to harass the author or to report their fiction as sexual abuse.
OUTRAGEOUS: when a user searched for "soriku yaoi" (a romantic pairing of teen characters Sora and Riku from the game Kingdom Hearts), he was accused of child exploitation, threatened with reporting to police, and sent to a website that told him to "GET HELP".
The A in CSAM stands for abuse, and it's there because an actual child is being abused when such images are created or distributed. Do not use terms like CSAM, VCSAM, or NPAI to refer to images that don't depict a real child.
When we faced the United Nations proposal to loosen the legal definition of child pornography to include art and fiction, we were on the defensive.
This time, we're fighting back. Sign our petition to rule art off-limits for CP/CSEM Internet hotlines. prostasia.org/campaign/inhop
Pornography is not for everyone, but it is not a public health crisis. We should be concentrating enforcement resources on preventing the dissemination of child abuse content, rather than perpetuating a harmful war on sex.
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Senator Jim Banks
@SenatorBanks
The prevalence of obscene pornography in our society has consequences, especially for our children.
It’s time we start talking about it & it’s time to do something about it.
I'm proud to introduce a letter calling on AG Barr to prosecute obscenity & make it a DOJ priority 
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Artist Debbie Dreschler wrote an award-winning comic about her own abuse. Last month the host of an art blog was arrested for a child pornography offense for including panels from this comic in an article. Read more exclusively in our latest newsletter. buff.ly/38Jtc6T
Forcing children to have intimate physical interactions with others is a consent violation. Hugs and kisses may seem harmless but, especially to a child, they can be extremely intimate acts and hard to understand. Respect children's bodily autonomy and right to not consent.
Queerphobic "anti" culture claims another victim as a professional cartoonist stalks and outs a disabled survivor over their artwork. buff.ly/2NSACyS
Have you ever told someone online that they need to "get help" because they have sexual thoughts about minors? Now you can put your money where your mouth is, by donating to a fund that we will use to help such people who are seeking professional therapy. buff.ly/2MXDFBA
Allow young people, including young queer and trans people, to be messy. What you think of their art and their fantasies really doesn't matter. What matters is that they receive comprehensive sex education and that shame-free support is available to them if they need it.
The EARN IT Act has just been reintroduced for 2022. It would contribute $0 towards child sexual abuse prevention, while raising new barriers to legitimate online speech about sex. buff.ly/2THUROX #EarnItAct
People are joking about politicians trying to ban anime. But it's no joking matter. If those politicians succeed, then soon fans will begin to be arrested. Netflix will cancel shows. Amazon will receive warrants to give up data on its customers. All for what?
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ShinP
@shinn87
Love this Australian Senator's review of Eromanga Sensei
Moral panic about whether fictional characters or toys "are underage" leads to overbroad censorship and thoughtcrime, and doesn't protect children. Protecting children requires educating and supporting people not to commit abuse, regardless of their fannish or sexual interests.
Conflating thoughts with abuse trivializes abuse. That's it. That's the tweet.
Are lolicon and shotacon manga and anime illegal in the United States? It depends. buff.ly/2KATZHW
It's a scandal—or it should be. The UK's National Crime Authority has testified that @MissingKids sends the personal information (IP addresses) of thousands of people who post or share manga art to foreign police forces for investigation. THIS MUST STOP. buff.ly/2YchbSI
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This cartoon panel precedes the one that was censored in Daddy's Girl by Debbie Drescher. If you can be arrested for sharing this, then you can be arrested for possessing it, or for drawing it. That's why we say that art is NOT child abuse—no exceptions.
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Prostasia Foundation
@ProstasiaInc
This just in: drawings are not real, and drawing bad things doesn't automatically make you a bad person.
Some people would risk exposing children to abuse in attempts to preserve childhood "purity" and "innocence". It shows that their attitude to CSA isn't based on the child's best interests, but rather on a subconscious feeling that everything sexual somehow "taints" a child.
Your regular reminder that about 90% of child sexual abuse is perpetrated by someone close to the child, who has no criminal record, often in their own home. Focusing on online stranger abuse is ignoring 90% of the problem!
Thinking the worst of people for the books they read or the art they consume is not safeguarding, it's stigma. It fuels harassment, discourages support seeking, and disproportionately harms marginalized community members.
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