2018 was the kick start year to protect kids online.
CraigsList NO more Personal Ads - Craigslist will no longer display personal ads on its website after the Senate voted on March 22nd 2018 to pass the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act. The bill means websites will be held liable for hosting sex trafficking content. It will also make it easier for victims of sex trafficking and prosecutors to sue companies that fail to keep exploitative content from their websites.
The aforementioned bill, H.R.1865, entitled "Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act of 2017” passed the Senate on March 21 and is currently awaiting President Donald Trump’s signature. Commonly referred to as FOSTA, the bill amends section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934 (which prevents platforms like Facebook from being held liable in situations of harassment, hate speech, cyberbullying, etc.), to make websites criminally liable for knowingly hosting, assisting, supporting, or facilitating sex trafficking.
Federal authorities seize Backpage.com - Craiglist rival Backpage seized by federal authorities. The online personals page has been seized by the US law enforcement April 6, 2018.
The bill came to life following insights discovered in a Senate investigation report, “Backpage.com’s Knowing Facilitation of Online Sex Trafficking” which found that the website Backpage — a similar classifieds site to Craigslist — knowingly allowed advertisements for child prostitution.
Social network Tumblr removed from Apple's App Store Nov 20, 2018 · Social networking app Tumblr has been removed from Apple's online App Store after child pornography was found to be visible through the app. The photo and video-sharing app was removed.
Twitter Clean Up Perisope! - Children as young as nine are being groomed on the live streaming app Periscope, a BBC investigation has found. Twitter, which owns the app, says it has “zero tolerance” for this kind of conduct. BBC Report:
Instagram and Snapchat are the social media platforms that have the worst impact on children's mental health, according to a study published by Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) and the Young Health Movement (YHM).
In 2004, when Mark Zuckerberg was a Harvard undergrad working on a skunkworks project called The Facebook, a friend asked him how he’d managed to obtain more than 4,000 emails, photos and other bits of personal info from fellow students. “People just submitted it. I don’t know why the "F" do they ‘trust me,’” Zuckerberg wrote in an instant-messaging exchange leaked to website Silicon Alley Insider. - businessinsider.com/the-end-of-facebook-2018-3
Updates on FaceBook 2018 The Facebook Dilemma - pbs.org The Facebook Dilemma - A major, two-night investigation of the powerful social media platform's impact on privacy and democracy in the U.S. and around the world.
Jeremy Hunt threatens social media with new child-protection laws.
In a letter to companies including Facebook and Google, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt accuses them of "turning a blind eye" to their impact on children. more info >>>http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43853678
Everything posted on the internet is permanent, and nothing is private – this includes words and photographs. Teach your child that they should never share anything on the internet that they would not want to be shown to anybody other than the recipient because they cannot guarantee that this will be the case, or anything they would not like to be held accountable for one, two or even ten years into the future.
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HOW FACEBOOK, GOOGLE, AND AMAZON CORNERED CULTURE AND UNDERMINED DEMOCRACY
A stinging polemic that traces the destructive monopolization of the Internet by Google, Facebook and Amazon, and that proposes a new future for musicians, journalists, authors and filmmakers in the digital age. - http://www.jontaplin.com/the-book/
"Move Fast and Break Things" is the most important book yet about the tragic consequences of monopoly power in the internet. Google, Facebook and Amazon have done wonderful things, but by a combination of design and unintended consequences, they have caused great harm to the creative arts, our culture and (in the case of Google and Facebook) our politics.