NCOSE Shares 2023 Victories Ahead of 2024 Dirty Dozen List
By Movieguide® Contributor
The National Center on Sexual Exploitation recently shared some of their victories as they prepare to release 2024’s “Dirty Dozen” list.
“The Dirty Dozen List is an annual campaign calling out twelve mainstream entities for facilitating, enabling, and even profiting from sexual abuse and exploitation,” the NCOSE explained in an Instagram post. “For over 10 years, the Dirty Dozen List has galvanized thousands of individuals like YOU to call on corporations, government agencies, and organizations to change problematic policies and practices.”
As the group prepares to publish this year’s list on April 10, the organization is taking a moment to reflect on what it accomplished with the companies named on 2023’s list.
“Snapchat improved detection and removal of sexually explicit/exploitative content, protecting the 90% of young people in 20+ countries that use this app!” NCOSE wrote.
Snapchat even credited NCOSE for encouraging them to make these changes in a public statement, writing, “Several of our new product safeguards were informed by feedback from The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE). Our new in-app educational resources were developed with The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). We are grateful for their recommendations and contributions.”
NCOSE added that Discord “activated higher safety settings by default and improved policies on child sexualization,” while “Reddit updated their child safety policy to more specifically prohibit various types of content and activities sexualizing children.”
‘They also partially restricted access to pornography, as well as bots which we had brought to their attention as facilitating the proliferation of child sexual abuse material and image-based sexual abuse across the app,” NCOSE wrote.
The organization’s largest victories were with Apple and Instagram.
“After two years of asking Apple to automatically blur nude images, they finally agreed to do so for kids 12 and under in iMessage, FaceTime, AirDrop, and Photos picker. According to estimates, this may protect up to 40% of American 8-12 year-olds!” NCOSE stated.
Instagram also upgraded its protections and parental controls and even started a task force to “investigate how Instagram facilitates the spread and sale of child sexual abuse material. ”
Movieguide® previously reported on NCOSE’s Dirty Dozen list:
In a press conference on April 10, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) will reveal its 2024 Dirty Dozen List, which lists twelve companies that enable sexual exploitation.
“Sexual exploitation and abuse thrives across tech platforms and entities we use daily; they continue to flourish due to lack of or poor enforcement of policies; and they are enabled by a lack of sufficient laws to hold companies accountable,” said Lina Nealon, NCOSE’s Vice President & Director of Corporate Advocacy. “The Dirty Dozen List exposes exploitation happening to us and to our children and calls for those enabling and profiting from sexual abuse and exploitation to change.”
“Over the past decade, the Dirty Dozen List Campaign has instigated major policy changes at Google, TikTok, Comcast, Delta Airlines, Amazon, the Department of Defense, and many other influential institutions,” an NCOSE press release said. “The list reveals practices and products that endanger and harm people and galvanizes the public to press on the named entities to act ethically and promote human dignity.”
By naming companies and the ways they engage in sexual exploitation, NCOSE aims to capture their attention and encourage preventive policy changes.
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