Targeting big tech on child sexual abuse is picking the wrong fight
The problem, Krasodomski-Jones says, is the “myriad of sites that don’t have the same resources”. The latest report from the Internet Watch Foundation, for example, notes that image hosting sites are abused “significantly more” than other services, hosting 72 per cent of referred child sexual abuse images in 2016, compared to only 1.1 per cent on social networks. Social media giants might host only a small percentage of child sexual abuse material, but that doesn’t mean they are completely guiltless. “We must not forget that the first step towards abuse is seldom through the dark web, but through the popular social media sites that children use every day,” says Peter Wanless, CEO of children’s charity NSPCC. That’s why to tackle these crimes at source — and disrupt abuse before it escalates — effective, enforceable regulation with teeth must be part of government’s response.” Preventing grooming could, however, prove much tougher than using image recognition to spot abusive images.
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