IWF chat bot to interrupt criminal offending around illegal images of minors

Interesting idea. It will launch sometime in late 2021 or 2022. It’s been said time and time again that we cant really arrest our way out of this problem, unfortunately. Arrests only can be at best a part of the solution.
IDK who runs this organization aka prostasia, but u might want to take a closer look at what is going down.

We’re building an interactive chatbot which aims to curb the demand for online child sexual abuse material. It will interrupt people trying to access this imagery and prevent them from committing a criminal offence.

In 2020, the End Violence Fund announced that they will fund this two-year project. The IWF reThink Chatbot will interact with internet users who are showing signs that they might be looking for images of child sexual abuse. It will attempt to engage them in a friendly and supportive conversation, and at the right moment, signpost them to the help and intervention support that they need.

The reThink chatbot will then refer people to our partner organisation, The Lucy Faithfull Foundation, who will help them change and control their behaviour.

Our developers have already created a functioning proof-of-concept prototype. To help us, we’re gathering some of the world’s best minds and technology experts. Among them will be a forensic linguistic specialist, who will assist our developers with the coding and design the conversation script and flow.

This project aims to roll-out a pilot by the end of 2021 with a full operational roll-out in 2022. We believe that this project has massive potential and will help in our proactive fight against online child sexual abuse and exploitation.

Google warns me about child pronography whenever I search up ‘‘Loli’’ or ‘‘Shota’’. This will just be the same thing but even worse.

Maybe it’s possible that some cp offenders also distribute real cp while calling it under those search terms?

That’s like saying people might distribute drugs under the term ‘‘cheese’’ so cheese should be outlawed. Loli and Shota is not child pornography but institutions with legal power recognize it as such.

Well, if tons of people are selling drugs under coded words like cheese, it makes sense to advertise get help to stop sites so offenders who want to get help can go to get help to stop. Same maybe happening with loli or shota.

Loli/shota are considered ‘bad words’ in Google’s search algorithms because of UN pressure. This type of tomfoolery didn’t begin until early to mid 2018, when Twitter also revised their rules to align with UN-backed pressure and scrutiny.

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It’s honestly Amazing how the U.N continues to fail spectacularly at doing what it was designed to do but has somehow managed to lead a successful global crusade against problematic erotica.

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I was extremely disappointed to see the UN bending the knee to this type of idiocy, but grateful to see the US, Japan, and Austria take up to defend logic and reason. Even the US defended fictional child porn in anime form, and Japan flat-out said classifying fiction as real abuse material was a blatant overreach, and Austria simply said there was no need.

You can read about it here:

“Paragraph 62: “… urges States parties to prohibit, by law, child sexual abuse material in any form …. including when such material represents realistic representations of non-existing children.”
In the United States, federal law provides that it is illegal to create, possess, or distribute a visual depiction of any kind, including a drawing, cartoon, sculpture or painting, that depicts a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct and is obscene. However, visual depictions (CGI, anime, etc.) where there is not a “real” child are typically protected by the First Amendment...and the United States’ obligations under the ICCPR. We suggest editing the paragraph as follows: “… urges States parties to prohibit, by law, consistent with their national legal systems, child sexual abuse material in any form …. including when such material represents realistic representations of non-existing children.”
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I have a friend who is a filmmaker in Japan. He says that many people there felt insulted that the Olympics Committee has insisted that all loli type images (even if not actually pornographic) be removed or covered in the city and surrounding areas until after the Tokyo Games.

And if they refuse to do so?

It was a while back that he told me about it (even before COVID-19 delayed the Olympics), but it was apparently a stipulation for the Games to be held there. All loli imagery removed or covered in Tokyo, roads leading to the city, and airports and dock areas. I can’t confirm the truth of this personally, but others in Japan said the same.

A country actively committing genocide is allowed to host the Winter Olympics. The Olympics Committee no longer has any legal or moral merit to enforce anything.

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Well in the USA it’s different.

The government wants to make it illegal, the majority of the people want it illegal but the government cannot make it illegal, therefore it gives corporations the power to make it de-facto illegal by sabotaging or eliminating outlets to the questionable material.

Like the peasants of olde, who wanted to burn witches with or without Church influence, the “majority of the people” are stupid.