What is the Dirty Dozen List?
What is the 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. Since its beginnings in 2013, the Dirty Dozen List released every year has empowers poeple to call on corporations, government agencies, and organisations to change problematic policies and practices. This campaign has brought about major victories at Google, Netflix, TikTok, Hilton Worldwide, Verizon, Walmart, the US Department of Defense, and many more.
The list is created by the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) in the United States which exists to build a world where people can live and love without sexual abuse and exploitation. Since 1962, NCOSE has been an advocate for human dignity, a voice for those who have suffered sexual abuse and exploitation, and a driver of personal and cultural change.
Apple
Apple’s record is rotten when it comes to child protection. This Big Tech titan refuses to scan for child sex abuse material, hosts dangerous apps with deceptive age ratings and descriptions, and won’t default safety features for teens.
Cash App
“Do more with your money” shouldn’t apply to buying sex and paying for abusive content. This peer-to-peer payment app appeals to pimps, predators, and pedophiles looking for a covert way to conduct criminal activity.
CDA Section 230
The Greatest Enabler of Online Sexual Exploitation. Misinterpretations of Communications Decency Act Section 230 grant Big Tech blanket immunity for any types of abuses they facilitate. Until we amend CDA 230, corporations can’t be held accountable!
Cloudflare
Providing a platform for sex buyers and traffickers. Cloudflare says it wants to build a better internet. So why does it provide services to some of the most prolific prostitution forums and deepfake sites?
Discord
Discord’s a hotspot for dangerous interactions and deepfakes. This platform is popular with predators seeking to groom kids and with creeps looking to create, trade, or find sexually abusive content of children and unsuspecting adults.
The world’s largest professional network is an amateur when it comes to stemming sexual exploitation. LinkedIn legitimizes Pornhub and other exploitative enterprises by giving them a platform, overlooks deepfake tool promotion, and is rampant with sexual harassment against women.
Meta (Facebook and Instagram)
“Moving fast” and making money at all costs leaves children to pay the price. Meta’s launch of end-to-end encryption, open-sourced AI, and virtual reality are unleashing new worlds of exploitation, while its brands continue to rank among the most dangerous for kids.
Microsoft's GitHub
Microsoft’s GitHub is the global hub for creating sexually exploitative AI tech. The vast majority of deepfakes, “nudify” apps, and AI-generated child sex abuse content originate on this platform owned by the world’s richest company.
Reddit is riddled with sexploitation. Child sex abuse material, sex trafficking, and image-based sexual abuse hide in plain sight among endless pornography subreddits allowed on this platform…content that will be further monetized if Reddit succeeds in going public.
Roblox
Roblox treats child protection like a game. Among the avatars, blocks, and buildings, kids are exposed to predators, rape-themed games, and age-inappropriate content like sex parties.
Spotify
“Music Porn for everyone.” Sexually explicit images, sadistic content, and networks trading child sex abuse material on its platform prove Spotify is out of tune with basic child safety measures and moderation practices.
Telegram
Known as the “dark web alternative,” Telegram unleashes a new era of exploitation. The messaging app Telegram serves as a haven for criminal communities across the globe. Sexual torture rings, sextortion gangs, deepfake bots, and more all thrive on an alarming scale.
You can click on the link and find out more about about each company and more importantly to find out how to take action against these company who are giving a platform to all forms of evil.
Glossary
Deepfake - Deepfakes are synthetic media that have been digitally manipulated to replace one person's likeness convincingly with that of another. It can also refer to computer-generated images of human subjects that do not exist in real life.
Dark Web - The dark web refers to encrypted online content and allows individuals to hide their identity and location from others. Dark web content is not indexed by conventional search engines.
Avatars - A static or moving image or other graphic representation that acts as a proxy for a person or is associated with a specific digital account or identity, as on the internet.
Open-Sourced - open-source software is where the source code is available to everyone in the public domain to use, modify, and distribute. It encourages creativity and innovation as developers can build on AI algorithms and pre-trained models to alter their own products and tools.
Sextortion - Sextortion or sexual extortion is when a person is convinced to send explicit photos online and then threatened that the images will be made public if the victim doesn't pay up.