Posted on 01/21/2021 10:23:08 AM PST by Red Badger
Twitter refused to take down widely shared pornographic images and videos of a teenage sex trafficking victim because an investigation “didn’t find a violation” of the company’s “policies,” a scathing lawsuit alleges.
The federal suit, filed Wednesday by the victim and his mother in the Northern District of California, alleges Twitter made money off the clips, which showed a 13-year-old engaged in sex acts and are a form of child sexual abuse material, or child porn, the suit states.
The teen — who is now 17 and lives in Florida — is identified only as John Doe and was between 13 and 14 years old when sex traffickers, posing as a 16-year-old female classmate, started chatting with him on Snapchat, the suit alleges.
Doe and the traffickers allegedly exchanged nude photos before the conversation turned to blackmail: If the teen didn’t share more sexually graphic photos and videos, the explicit material he’d already sent would be shared with his “parents, coach, pastor” and others, the suit states.
Doe, acting under duress, initially complied and sent videos of himself performing sex acts and was also told to include another child in his videos, which he did, the suit claims.
Eventually, Doe blocked the traffickers and they stopped harassing him, but at some point in 2019, the videos surfaced on Twitter under two accounts that were known to share child sexual abuse material, court papers allege.
Over the next month, the videos would be reported to Twitter at least three times — first on Dec. 25, 2019 — but the tech giant failed to do anything about it until a federal law enforcement officer got involved, the suit states.
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So Twitter standard removes 1st amendment protected political speech that doesn’t doesn’t agree with their views but illegal child porn meets their standards? Just wow! I guess in a country being ruled by a pedophile the rules have changed.
Whatever ((( leftists ))) want....((( leftists ))) get....and to rightfully stand up against them is slandered as “bigotry”, “knee-jerk reactionary-ism”, “intolerance”, et al, blackmailing you psychologically, emotionally. Emotional fascism.
You have an amazing grasp for the obvious.
Man O man!!!
I hope there’s a billion dollar clause in that law suit.
Bump
The meme that asks how if big tech can censor the most powerful man on earth yet let child porn remain?
Because that’s what they want to do.
Doesn’t surprise me that they lack any morals, does it anyone else here?
Not when you look at Jack Dorsey................................
8>)
The problem with the concept of Twitter and Facebook being a “protected provider” of services is that they make money by selling advertising based on views.
So when they leave up images of sexual abuse, the views of that illegal material make Twitter money.
A fee-based service isn’t like that — if people paid for accounts, then Twitter would make the same amount of money whether someone viewed something or not, and could more reasonably argue that they are just providing a service, and are not responsible for how that service is used.
Instead, the tech giants are doing the opposite. They get protection while providing false information that excites the left and therefore gets lots of view of advertising, they leave up pictures that bring in traffic from perverts, and Amazon takes down a paying subscriber like Parlor.
Tech giants are the new arbiters of what constitutes free speech, accountable to no one.
“I guess in a country being ruled by a pedophile the rules have changed.”
The very, very wealthy migrate to pedo after all the various sex acts with adults gets boring.
And it’s a big, dirty (but well known) secret that they want kept invisible from the unwashed masses with their old-fashioned morality.
Satan’s minions in America migrate to the Democrat Party, too.
“The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink...” - George Orwell, 1984
This is a federal crime, lets see some jail time, huge fines and maybe a shut down.
Biden and Wray, working to protect the children....(NOT)
So then pedophiles own and run Twitter.
FIFY
This tells us a lot about who is running Twitter.
I'll have to disagree with this statement.
More advanced countries, like Uganda, have made tech giants such as Tweetstapo and Fecesbuch accountable. 
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