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The New York Times published a stomach-churning report last week about Pornhub. The Montreal company is the undisputed global leader in online pornography, but it also has a habit of disseminating criminal videos, including of children as young as 14 being sexually assaulted.
In Ottawa, the opposition is asking urgent questions about how this could happen in Canada, and the government is adamant that it will introduce legislation to address the issue of online hate after the House returns from its Christmas break.
Yet this response betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the issue.
Pornhub recommending child rape videos isn’t a scandal. It’s a crime. Surely it goes without saying that promoting and profiting from the sexual assault of children is already illegal in Canada.
We don’t need to wait for new legislation. Justice Minister Lametti need only dial 911.
So why does the government believe that it cannot act until new legislation passes? Is the legality of promoting child rape videos somehow ambiguous?
That’s exactly what the platforms would have us believe, reflecting just how successful they’ve been at framing the discussion in Ottawa to fit their interests. For these companies, the real villains are the people who create and update this horrid content. Pornhub and Facebook would have you believe that they can make illegal content globally available, recommend it to people who didn’t ask to see it, and rake in unholy sums of money by selling ads against this content without being legally responsible for it. It’s quite something.
Yet we should pay little heed to this self-serving spin, because in Canada, the law is all that counts. And according to a recent legal analysis , disseminators like YouTube, Facebook and Pornhub are liable under Canadian law for spreading harmful content produced by others, if they know about it in advance and disseminate anyway, or if they are notified afterwards and fail to remove it.
The latter case is clear cut. All of these companies have complaints processes where problematic content is flagged. Yet despite this awareness, Canadian politicians, judges, prosecutors and police officers fail to apply the law.
We could stop there, but the platforms’ responsibility runs deeper still. Facebook, YouTube and Pornhub are not dumb repositories of user-generated content. They are hyper-personalized recommendation engines. Much attention is paid to the nefarious ways in which these firms harvest our personal data to ascertain our interests. But that data is useless by itself. To maintain our attention and show us ads, they must know our interests and which content matches our interests. Only then do they decide what to show us and what to hide.
That sounds like an editorial decision, because it is. So why is it that a broadcast CEO would go to jail if her editor-in-chief put child rape videos on TV, but a tech CEO that outsources this exact task to an algorithmic editor-in-chief does not?
Canada must restore the rule of law online, and quickly, because Canadians are suffering real and irreversible harms — children especially. Pornhub’s child rape video business is not an outlier. The internet is awash in child sexual abuse material. The FBI now receives over 100,000 reports of such imagery every day, most of it on Facebook. The volume of complaints is now so high that they only have enough resources to investigate cases involving infants and toddlers.
Remember that next time the platforms’ willing and witless defenders argue that holding platforms liable for promoting illegal content would unduly restrict our freedom of expression. We’re not talking about “awful but lawful” content. We’re not in a grey area. When companies like Pornhub and Facebook are found to profit from clearly illegal activity, they should be prosecuted vigorously.
American-style free speech fundamentalists might argue that anybody should be able to post anything anywhere, but that’s not who we are as Canadians.
We must start by declaring that these harms are unequivocally unacceptable. And we can prove our sincerity by immediately and unreservedly enforcing our laws. Canada should hold the likes of Facebook and Pornhub fully liable for the myriad harms they inflict on our country, our democracy, and most unforgivably, our children.
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Police are questioning a student at an elite private school in Melbourne over the alleged sharing of explicit images of young naked girls.
A 16-year-old male student at St Michael’s Grammar School has been interviewed by the sexual crime squad over the images which are understood to have been shared via a Dropbox folder.
The folder reportedly contained photos of several girls from the St Kilda school.
The school has not ruled out expelling the student under police investigation for distributing “inappropriate images”.
St Michael’s alerted parents to the police probe in an email on Wednesday afternoon.
Head of School Simon Gipson said the college notified police once they were alerted to the issue by a student.
“While we cannot comment on action taken, we continue to make all decisions according to our behavioural expectations framework, which is based on our core values of dignity, respect, care and compassion,” he said, The Age has reported.
He warned the school would “apply the most severe consequences” if police identified any breach of these expectations.
The school did not say whether the student had been suspended but said he would face “severe consequences” if the police investigation confirmed the student breached the school’s behavioural expectations.
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