Social Medias Impact On Sxually Based Crime

Amjed Washaha Mrs. Giknis English 1 22/3/2021 Social Media Impact On Sexually Based Crimes Hello, did you know that in 2013 researchers have concluded that the number of child pornography images had increased 1500% since 1988?! Also, there was a 375% increase in the amount of child pornography websites between February of 2001 and July 2001, just five months apart! Now imagine how high that number has increased with the new modernization of computers and cybersecurity. Now if you don’t see the problem here you aren’t blind you choose not to see. This inspired me to do my own investigation into this topic. As I discussed in my earlier post, Twitter the infamous social media platform know primarily for political nonsense and cancel culture has some serious issues with the exchanging and sale of unsolicited pornography of not only minors but adults as well. Adults that are ignorant to the fact that their private photos and videos are being sold and exchanged on sites such as Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. With the amount of users apps such as Twitter have you would expect that moderation for things such as this would be good and looked after well no Twitter does nothing to fix this issue only if you report the user directly will Twitter do something. Well then report all of the accounts right? There are so many accounts that it would be impossible for me to do so and even if I do these accounts are what we call “throwaways” which are accounts that have to link to the user and can be “thrown away” at any time. After they are removed or throw away their account they just make a new one and start their operations up again. Source: Twitter Names and hashtags covered to prevent the advertising of illegal activities It doesn’t take much to fully understand what is going on here. But there are some things to explain like what does “S2R” mean, well it means “send to receive” this is a tactic these criminals use to obtain a greater stock but also make sure you are an actual buyer and not a cop or someone that is just trying to toy with them. Amongst other things we see one user state that they have 100 gigabytes of material on deck which for comparison is around 20,000 songs or in our circumstances around 200 hours in standard definition video or even 100,000 photos according to “Kenstechtips.com”. When you think about it this is one person amongst thousands in this world and he already has enough material to last him a lifetime. Now, do you see the problem?

If you have keen eyes you will see that all of these posts are very recent with the oldest being only made a day before this article was written (24/3/2021) and one even been made only nine hours ago. Source: Twitter

In this snapshot, I have made the decision to not cover the search bar. The hashtag “Megalinks’ ’ refers to an anonymous file-sharing application known as “Mega.nz”. I do not hold Mega.nz accountable for the actions we see displayed here as their services help small businesses and developers share data without the fear of the data being compromised. The reason I have decided to share this information with you is that I have come to the realization that anyone looking to purchase this crude material will go above and beyond to obtain it and it is quite easy to obtain information on this topic. From what we have concluded these accounts are “throwaways” and they share material using anonymous methods, the combination of these two tactics offers these criminals total anonymity. So what is being done about this issue? Nothing on Twitters’ part at least, Twitter hasn’t even issued out a statement on the matter. As of March 25th, 2021 the only action taken against these criminals has been mass reportings and floodings of the threads. Users will “flood” the hashtag “megalinks” with gifs and memes shaming the child pornography market as shown in the image below. Reporting doesn’t do much but this flooding tactic has a lot of potentials to help hide the users selling the nefarious photos and videos.

Here we see a user flooding the #megalink thread with something a little more friendly. Link from the Zelda series! Source: Twitter
What can you do? Even though users can make new accounts at anytime mass reporting can get the seller off the platform and make them move to more discrete and harder to reach parts of the internet. Although this might not solve the problem it will make it harder for first-timers to purchase and get addicted, it will also shield children from stumbling upon such vulgar media. Email Twitter, emailing twitter’s support center can help inform twitter of these criminals’ existence. If all else fails hit them where it hurts their wallet! Contact investors let them know what is going on in the company they have money invested into. And finally, be safe whilst doing research for this project I had to cut out many things for as it was too vulgar for a school setting I also stumbled unwarranted photos whilst looking through threads while the photo is down now I cannot say for sure if it was re-uploaded again. Thank you for reading let us make a difference!

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