| A number of things really jump out to me: * How are "sexual violence" and "childhood" actually defined here? * Most people who I know who were victims of sexual violence as children were victimized by other children around their own age, in person. Very often it was a sibling, cousin, or neighbor. I don't see automatic CSAM detection actually helping this statistic all that much. * "2021 global study found that more than one in three respondents had been asked to do something sexually explicit online during their childhood". Again, what defines "childhood"? When I was a teenager, I was having phone sex and video call sex with other people my own age. That would classify me as having been "asked to do something sexually explicit online" as well as being the other side of it. * People with disabilities are at a really high risk of victimization in a lot of different forms. This "Reasons for and objectives of the proposal" section conflates a really large number of things (Document is http://www.marinacastellaneta.it/blog/wp-content/uploads/202... ). It treats the following items as all being effectively the same thing with the same solutions: * Minors being sexually abused online. * Minors being sexually abused in person. * Minors being sexually abused by adults. * Minors being sexually abused by other minors. * Voluntary sexual activity between minors of the same age. * The victimization of disabled minors. It also abuses statistics by considering all sexual activity of minors to be effectively the same (16 year olds showing each other naked pictures of themselves being the same as prepubescents being abused sexually by adults) and using statistics that include real world abuse to justify digital surveillance that won't even help reduce a lot of those numbers because the crimes don't even happen digitally. Even if this was 100% effective at removing all CSAM from the entire internet, how effective is that expected to be at actually reducing childhood sexual abuse? I know abusers consume CSAM, but in the absence of CSAM, are people going to be less likely to actually abuse children? Are people who abuse children now going to stop, and is it going to somehow prevent new abusers from starting? I honestly don't know the answer to this, but I'm skeptical to the idea that this has anywhere near the benefit that the proponents think it does. |
The normal way one, under the age of 18. They do provide stats about one happening to children at the age of nine though, if you only wanna count the really tiny ones as children.
> I was having phone sex and video call sex with other people my own age
The question is explicitly about being asked to do something they were uncomfortable with, a mutually consensual interaction wouldn't count in that survey.
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