Michael Salter
@mike_salter
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Professor of Criminology | Director of the @Childlight_ East Asia and Pacific Hub @UNSW | Chair - https://t.co/A8sba2EPBc
Sydney, New South Wales
Joined September 2012
My new paper with @CdnChildProtect examines the political abandonment of survivors of child sexual abuse material. We trace the distribution of CSAM of three survivors over the last five years and the impunity granted to offenders by Tor and commercial online services.
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children.
newyorker.com
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
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I can scarcely believe it: Marking the 50 th anniversary this week of the publication of Damned Whores and God’s Police. The book changed lives; it certainly changed mine.
smh.com.au
Australia’s not as sexist as it was, but too many men still see women’s success as undermining their status.
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Interesting that gamers were more outraged by Collective Shout's campaign than they were at West, or the half a million child sex offenders who downloaded the game, or Itch for hosting the game in the first place.
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The game penalised players if they didn't abuse children. West was also found with extreme child sexual abuse material. This is exactly the kind of illegal child exploitation game - available on a mainstream gaming platform - that @CollectiveShout took action against.
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Alec West convicted in April of making/distributing a child sexual abuse game, which he made available on Itch. The game was downloaded over half a million times. West made $891 000 from the game. https://t.co/ZlKhhOadGn
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@2Rarely @mike_salter We’ve been calling @SHEIN_Official out for this since September 2024. They’ve tried to get away with this for long enough.
collectiveshout.org
for a world free of sexploitation
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Shein bans all sex dolls after France's outrage over 'childlike' figures Earlier on Monday, France's finance minister had threatened to ban the retailer from the country if it resumed selling the childlike dolls, #ChildSafety #Safeguarding
https://t.co/9GbECkyMaM
lemonde.fr
Earlier on Monday, France's finance minister had threatened to ban the retailer from the country if it resumed selling the childlike dolls, just days before it opens its first physical store in Paris.
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Win! @SHEIN_Official forced to remove child s*x abuse dolls. The move comes days after national media attention on our campaign against child s*x abuse doll sellers on #SHEIN and #Temu on ABC. Read more about our campaign against SHEIN here >> https://t.co/CjCiU2v9fB
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From the childcare scandal to regressive ‘tough on crime’ policies, Australia is failing to protect its children | Anne Hollonds
theguardian.com
There is an urgent need to make child safety, rights and wellbeing a national priority and to fix the accountability gaps putting them at risk
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The way of the future - digital sovereignty and govt disinvestment in tech monopolies based in offshore jurisdictions who resist local laws and regulations
zdnet.com
European Union states are increasingly shifting toward European-based companies that offer open-source solutions. Here's why.
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.@jessradio delivering the plenary here at the @ISSTD regional conference in Wellington, Aotearoa
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This week Anne Hollonds wraps up her 5-year term as National Children’s Commissioner. Throughout her term she has consistently called for federal leadership on child safety and wellbeing and collaboration across state and territory governments. We thank Commissioner Hollonds
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Not only is Temu facilitating the sale of child sexual abuse dolls, the platform will also illegally ship these products to Australia https://t.co/0xRv7xopZO
@shoptemu #BoycottTemu
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The QLD scheme sounds very similar to the WA sex offender registry. The evidence suggests these registries are accessed very rarely. A risk - not often acknowledged - is that these registries can be used by offenders to find each other.
Daniel's Law — named after murdered teenager Daniel Morcombe — will see a website set up listing reportable offenders who fail to comply with their obligations or are hiding from police. #ChildSafety Qld https://t.co/N4HngLYPqI
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The ACT has made a historic decision to ensure that churches are liable for child sexual abuse by clergy. What about survivors elsewhere?
abc.net.au
Survivors watched on as the ACT took a historic step on Tuesday in passing a bill to overturn a High Court decision that allowed a church to avoid litigation over the actions of one of its priests.
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Those who object to child protection safeguards in encrypted environments 🚨have to contend with the realities of these systems 🚨. Encrypted systems like Tor are crawling right now with millions of offenders. Their victims get younger each year and the abuse more severe.
‘They are sadists’: How abusers are using the dark web to infiltrate childcare centres
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‘They are sadists’: How abusers are using the dark web to infiltrate childcare centres
smh.com.au
Some of Australia’s biggest childcare providers rely on casual staff to keep centres open – creating opportunities for predators to slip through the cracks.
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Former product safety lead at OpenAI: AI generated stories “became a hotbed of sexual fantasies, including encounters involving children and violent abductions — often initiated by the user, but sometimes steeredby the A.I. itself” https://t.co/5VrsjeLqXr via @NYTOpinion
nytimes.com
A.I. companies need to do more to show the proof behind their claims.
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A Four Corners investigation has uncovered almost 150 former #Childcare workers convicted or accused of sexual offences against children, with more than a dozen currently before the courts. #CSA Child Sexual Abuse #ChildSafety #Safeguarding audio 2:48 https://t.co/k16RW6wS7w
abc.net.au
A Four Corners investigation has uncovered almost 150 former childcare workers convicted or accused of sexual offences against children, with more than a dozen currently before the courts.
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But also - these offenders are not being detected through existing safeguarding measures. They are being detected by police via the images and videos they share online. Safety measures have not been developed to target this group.
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