Michael Salter

Child sexual abuse material survivors and the politics of abandonment - Transforming Society Michael Salter discusses how survivors of child sexual abuse material remain among the internet’s most neglected victims, enduring lifelong violations while tech companies and governments prioritize…

@mike-salter.bsky.social discusses how survivors of #ChildSexualAbuse material remain among the internet’s most neglected victims, enduring lifelong violations while tech companies and governments prioritise digital freedom over their safety and justice: buff.ly/vTM0AzM

The funders of the Tor Project have their heads in the sand. Many internet platforms are used by perpetrators of child sexual exploitation, but the Tor Project stands alone in its extremist views and management.

“The Tor Project stands alone in its extremist views and management: what internet platform does less to secure the human rights owed to children to be free from sexual exploitation?” www.linkedin.com/pulse/funder...

Is Australia doing enough to prevent the next child abuse crisis? - ABC Religion & Ethics Revelations of sexual abuse in childcare centres have shocked Australia and prompted long overdue reforms — but while these changes are needed, there is much more to do given the scale of the problem ...

My op ed co-authored with Matt Tyler - Australia stands at a critical juncture: will we do what’s needed to prevent an impending child sexual abuse crisis? www.abc.net.au/religion/aus...

CSAM distribution on Tor is not inevitable; The network’s creators have the power to act Why has the Canadian Centre for Child Protection been notifying the organization behind the “Dark web” of the mass distribution of child sexual abuse material on their network?

An important explainer from @cdnchildprotect.bsky.social Director of Tech Lloyd Richardson on the role of the Tor Project in facilitating the mass sexual abuse and exploitation of children protectchildren.ca/en/press-and...

Privacy at a cost: the dark web’s main browser helps pedophile networks flourish, experts say The Tor network’s privacy architecture creates a safe haven for predators to share child sexual abuse material

Finally - mainstream media coverage of the massive child sex offender communities on Tor, and the role of the Tor Project in facilitating the distribution of child sexual abuse material
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Spotlight on childcare reforms reveals how far there is to go Australia's long overdue reforms to improve safety across the nation's childcare centres are a start but still a long way off best practice compared to other countries, writes Conor Duffy.

Australia's #Childcare safety reforms are the 'bare minimum' parents should expect and reveal just how poor regulation has been

#ChildSafety #ChildProtection #Safeguarding
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

‘Now that I know, what do I do?’ The terrible question of how and when to tell a small child about abuse Common wisdom is that we don’t have memories before about the age of four. So what do parents do when a young child has been the victim of abuse?

UNSW Childlight Hub deputy Dr Delanie Woodlock quoted in this article on what to tell kids who were sexually abused as infants - she points out that the abuse of babies has been overlooked, but the digital evidence shows they are being targeted for exploitation www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

I’m supervising Nicolette Bell’s honours project on sexual wellbeing amongst Australian women who have survived child sexual abuse.

If you are a woman, in Australia, who has experienced child sexual abuse, please consider filling out this 15 minute survey: unsw.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Kate Price has memories of being horribly abused as a child. Would anyone else remember? The 52-year-old has memories of being abused as a young child. For half her life she’s been searching for evidence that would persuade people to believe her.

Kate previously told her story in this Pulitzer nominated piece by Janelle Nanos apps.bostonglobe.com/magazine/202...

‘I was completely dehumanised by my father’: how Kate Price uncovered the horrifying truths of her childhood She was sexually abused by her father until she was about 12 – and he would also sell her to other men. Then she grew up and began researching child sex trafficking, slowly piecing together clues abou...

Looking forward to this book - Kate Price is a survivor and expert in family-based child sexual exploitation. This will be an important autobiography www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

C3P had the privilege of hosting child protection experts Dr. Elly Hanson, Prof. Jon Rouse, retired SSA Jim Cole, and @mike-salter.bsky.social in the last few weeks. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. The work you do is changing survivors' lives and we are so lucky to learn from the best!

French surgeon who sexually abused hundreds of people jailed Joel Le Scouarnec is one of France's most prolific convicted sex offenders in the country's history.

French surgeon Joel Le Scouarnec sentenced to 20 years behind bars — the maximum penalty for aggravated rape, for sexually abusing hundreds of people, mostly children, over decades

#CSA Child Sexual Abuse #Rape #SexualAssault

France
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Wishing you a swift recovery Peter!

Arachnid: Hunting the web’s darkest secrets True Crime Podcast · Weekly Series · What if the worst thing that ever happened to you plays out every day, countless times, on anonymous computer screens all over the world.  Everyday tens of millio...

The podcast series Arachnid is now live, highlighting the human costs of decades of inaction over child sexual abuse material, with a focus on the pioneering work of @cdnchildprotect.bsky.social. Listen to the first two episodes here: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a...

Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online A Brazilian team used Discord’s API to scrape 10% of its open servers.

A research team created a 2 billion-message Discord dataset and published it online:

www.404media.co/researchers-...

QLD introduces new legislation for sexual assault cases - ABC listen The Queensland state government has introduced legislation that would limit the use of 'good character' references when determining penalties in rape and sexual assault cases. The proposed reforms ad...

The Qld state government has introduced legislation that would limit the use of 'good character' references when determining penalties in #Rape and #SexualAssault cases.

#LawReform #YourReferenceAintRelevant #CSA Child Sexual Abuse

Qld
Australia

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Big Tech takes a harder line against worker activism, political dissent A tighter labor market and lower corporate tolerance have stifled employee input on controversies over company policy, AI safety and the Israel-Gaza war.

Some of the tech industry’s biggest corporations are cracking down on employees who criticize their policies, stifling worker activism that was once ubiquitous in Silicon Valley.

The companies are rejecting worker petitions, firing employees, and removing critical posts on internal message boards.

'Shameful': Demand for investigation into residential care after exploitation revelations The national children's commissioner calls for an inquiry into the $2 billion residential care system after an ABC investigation exposed children were being sexually exploited.

We 100% back Children’s Commissioner Anne Hollonds call for an inquiry into the residential care system, including the sexual exploitation of children in the system. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

Girl in 24/7 care 'so far gone' she may die from sexual exploitation An ABC investigation into the $2 billion residential care system finds children in three of the biggest states are being preyed upon by child sex abusers when they should be safe in state care.

"In some parts of Australia, one-third of the children in residential care are feared to be sexually exploited."

In the last financial year in Vic, 156 of the 472 children in residential care were believed to be sexually exploited. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

BM Boys: the Nigerian sextortion network hiding in plain sight on TikTok US kids are falling prey to a sophisticated network of scammers who extort thousands – and push some victims to suicide

The Nigerian sexual extortion network boasting about their offences on TikTok

The Anglican bishop who took on sexual abuse in the church When Greg Thompson became bishop of Newcastle, he refused to turn a blind eye to the decades-long child sex abuse scandals in the diocese. For him, it was personal. He was himself a sexual abuse survi...

The Anglican bishop who took on sexual abuse in the church

#CCSA Clerical Child Sexual Abuse #CSA #AbuseByClergy #Coverup #MaleSurvivor

NSW
Australia
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

Opinion | These Internal Documents Show Why We Shouldn’t Trust Porn Companies

Lawsuit reveals that Pornhub knowingly hosted videos of child sexual abuse material with view counts of 600 million plus. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/o...

Trump administration to stop US research on space pollution, in boon to Elon Musk SpaceX and Starlink owner may benefit from Trump cuts to projects that could have led to regulations and costs

Another boon to Elon Musk...
Trump administration to stop US research on space pollution, in boon to Elon Musk
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

My first job out of uni was working for Lindsay Tanner - the writing was on the wall then. Nice to see the seat come home

Facebook ‘putting children’s lives in danger’ amid fall in its child abuse reports National Crime Agency chiefs blame Mark Zuckerberg’s introduction of end-to-end encryption

Facebook’s implemention of E2E encryption is indisputably providing cover for child sex offenders and putting children’s lives at risk - the data is clear www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...

Virginia Giuffre, survivor of Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse, dies by suicide Virginia Giuffre was one of the first survivors to call for Jeffrey Epstein to face criminal charges

Virginia Giuffre, prominent survivor of Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse, dies by suicide

The Trump Administration’s War on Children The administration is quietly putting America’s children at risk by cutting funds and manpower for investigating child abuse, enforcing child support payments, providing child care and much more.

Trump has indefinitely withdrawn federal funding for:
• Investigating child sexual abuse and internet crimes against kids;
• Responding to reports of missing children;
• Preventing youth violence

New, @propublica.org

How Mark Zuckerberg is flipping the script on kids’ safety online The Facebook founder is lobbying Congress to leave his firm alone — and making headway.

Zuckerberg trying to push child safety upstream to the app stores to stymie regulation that would hold Meta accountable www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Dating apps failing to protect children from sex offenders: report - ABC listen Dating apps may be helping Australians find love, but a new study finds they're also helping predators find victims.... A new report co-led by the University of New South Wales Sydney has found most ...

Dating apps are helping Australians find love, but a new study has revealed they're also helping predators find victims. Institute Associate + Director of Childlight East Asia and Pacific Hub, Professor @mike-salter.bsky.social spoke to RNBreakfast about his research. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Britain must not sell out Online Safety for tariff scraps The idea that digital regulation is an attack on free speech is a myth, largely perpetuated by allies of big tech

This is an incredibly important point to grasp at this moment in history.

Don’t let American big tech and its useful idiots weaponise tariffs against online safety legislation. www.theneweuropean.co.uk/britain-must...