Many people believe issues surrounding non-consensual content, AI-generated exploitation, and CSAM have already been solved because new laws are beginning to emerge around these topics.
But it’s important to understand the difference between reactive laws and prevention-focused laws.
For example, laws like the Take It Down Act primarily focus on takedown processes after harmful content has already been uploaded and distributed online.
Other proposed approaches, such as the Defiance Act, focus heavily on lawsuits and legal action after the abuse has already occurred — still placing much of the burden on survivors to identify perpetrators, pursue legal action, and deal with the emotional and financial aftermath after the damage is already done.
But by the time victims are forced to chase takedowns, lawsuits, or copies of exploitative material across the internet, the harm has often already spread to countless websites, accounts, and platforms.
The real question is:
Why are we still allowing exploitative, non-consensual, and abusive content to be uploaded in the first place?
The PROTECT Act focuses on prevention before harm occurs through age and consent verification for uploaders to adult platforms.
Because survivors should not carry the burden of cleaning up abuse that should never have been uploadable to begin with.
One of the many, many, MANY reasons why @GovernorHobbs needs to sign my bill HB2133. Our state is currently failing to adequately protect its residents. My bill rights that wrong.
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No one should be sexualized without consent.
Adults should not fear sexual ambiguity or expression.
And there is zero tolerance for any erotic content involving children or animals.
#Consent protects. Boundaries matter.
If a gov organization so powerful and dedicated to ending child #trafficking has yet to prosecute all the owners of the IP's that shared #Epstein's cult abuse videos that continue to circulate and exploit victims. They're not actually fighting for a solution for our society.
For years, I’ve been pushing the Protect Act—a bill I created to verify age and consent for uploaders on adult platforms.
What CNN just exposed is horrific—but it’s not new. And much of it could have been prevented.
This is the gap: content gets uploaded without verification, and by the time it’s taken down, the damage is already done.
Prevention is the only solution.
It’s a broken system—platforms allow harmful content targeting women and children to exist, but when people try to expose abuse, that’s what gets removed. This is exactly why we need stronger protections and real accountability.
If you’re a victim of online abuse, my nonprofit @foundationra1 provides FREE takedown services, legal support, and resources.
Also Support the Protect Act—it would stop this abuse before it’s ever uploaded.
Section 230 is exactly why platforms can ignore digital violence and online abuse like this.
I know this firsthand.
I was a victim of the 2014 iCloud hack, and were uploaded to sites like Motherless without my consent. It took years of fighting to remove that content—while it continued to spread.
That’s the problem.
Takedowns happen after the damage is done.
The Protect Act fixes this at the source.
It requires age and consent verification for uploaders to adult platforms, stopping digital violence before it begins.
We don’t need better cleanup.
We need prevention.
If an gov organization so powerful and dedicated to ending child trafficking has yet to prosecute all the owners of the IP’s that shared Epstein’s cult abuse videos that continue to circulate and exploit victims. They’re not actually fighting for a solution for our society.
@EkGaetan@BasedMikeLee You stated what the solution would be for this crime. I told you there has been the exact solution and your first response is to disregard it. Just like when it was in congress. As a survivor I’m concerned if org like yours are actually for the end of CSAM & online exploitation.
The lack of passion is so disheartening.
“It was attempted but no action taken so let’s not care about a solution”
More updates on this bill soon! It certainly does exist along with the work of the survivor who founded it.