Prostasia Foundation

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 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:

52 steps. 5 minutes. Just to access a website. Age verification laws aren’t about safety, they’re about censorship.

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"We're seeing loud calls for the new administration to use the Department of Justice to arrest alleged 'pornographers' — a designation increasingly applied to not just adult content creators, but writers, artists, and educators." xbiz.com/news/286792/ok…

"As a kid, there’s no one you can really talk to. No roadmap for how to grow up as a pedophile while being a good person. All the depictions in movies, TV, news, social media… everyone who’s like you is pure evil." readtangle.com/otherposts/liv…

If the far right are praising the act, it’s time to condemn it and the person using it, and not subject it to media “objectivity” or debate. People fought in World War II so this would never happen again. wired.com/story/neo-nazi…

B/c there’s at least 120k people who can look beyond blind hatred and see that the ONLY way to decrease the unacceptably high rates of child sexual abuse is to understand the difference between a) nonoffending pedophiles, b) pedophilic offenders and c) nonpedophilic offenders.

If you’re struggling with your interest in child pornography (child sexual exploitation material) and want to start fresh in 2025, we are here to support you with your goals to do so. Reach out to our anonymous chatline or helpline today. ⬇️ Talkingforchange.ca

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It's incredibly revealing that "anti-trafficking" advocacy groups refuse to talk to those doing the hard work of stopping CSAM ... because they don't want to validate the existence of legal adult businesses. @DDUnonprofit has learned the hard way how bad faith hurts the fight.

Mandatory age checks are the wrong approach to protecting young people online. In 2025, EFF will continue urging politicians around the globe to explore less invasive approaches to protecting all people from online harms. eff.org/deeplinks/2024…

Labelling non-sexual child nudity in art as “child porn” does more to sexualize children than the art itself does. dallasexpress.com/tarrant/exclus…

Banning social media and introducing mandatory age verification checks is the wrong approach to protecting young people online. But politicians in Australia decided to do so anyway. eff.org/deeplinks/2024…

"Because the SSA does not check SSNs for histories of fraud before issuing them, the agency is regularly assigning babies numbers that have histories of fraud and crime, damaging their credit from infancy." thedispatch.com/article/child-…

Extremists constantly demonize abortion care later in pregnancy, but the truth is, this type of care is extremely rare, and it's necessary to save pregnant people's lives and health when they are faced with devastating pregnancy crises. bit.ly/41qtmOB

Overreaching legislation claiming to fight CSAM while invading your privacy is not unique to the United States techradar.com/computing/cybe… Chat un-encryption/age verification are by the same groups, and mainly (99.9%?) invade the privacy of consenting adults viewing legal content.

KOSA threatens free speech and puts vulnerable communities at risk📢 Let’s fight back—call House leadership at 202-519-4583 and demand they block this dangerous bill.

Aside from the fact that minors should not be putting themselves in danger by "hunting predators", it is abhorrent that minor teenagers are harassing gay men with the classic homophobic trope of calling them "pedophiles" lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/teen-g…

@ProtonWallet @ProtonMail We're also well aware of getting blocked by Paypal. One of the ramnifications of the passage of SESTA/FOSTA is that anything related to topic of "sex" gets censored -- even organizations fighting to prevent sexual abuse

Proton's origin story is also a #Bitcoin success story. Back in June 2014, @ProtonMail's crowdfunding account was arbitrarily frozen by PayPal, and to circumvent this, we started accepting Bitcoin donations. 1/3