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This is a condensed version of the interview with Clare Morell. The full version was released on Epoch TV on August 27, 2024.
“In Snapchat, which is, you know, a very common, popular app for young kids, within four clicks, a child can get to Pornhub. If a child clicks on a Pornhub link inside of Snapchat, they’ll be brought to
Pornhub’s page, all within the app, and that’s something that the parent can’t see into,” says Clare Morell, senior policy analyst at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
“There’s a symbiosis between pornography sites and adult apps like onlyfans and social media. These porn performers and porn websites are actually going to social media to recruit new users, and so it’s very easy for a kid to stumble across it and to think, Oh, what is that? And just click on a link without even thinking further.”
“This medium of social media, the way it’s designed for likes and followers, is sexualized and is trying to send the message that sex is normal, including for children, including violent, aggressive sex,” she says.
Morell is an advocate for child protection and a leading voice in the conversation about digital safety. She’s also the author of the forthcoming book, “The Tech Exit: A Manifesto for Freeing Our Kids,” which looks at the disastrous effect that pornography and other violent and sexual online content has had on society.
“Kids don’t even need to go looking for it anymore. It finds them on social media… The porn companies and the big tech companies are really hijacking children’s vulnerabilities, and it’s happening on apps that I don’t think parents are fully aware of.”
“With a smartphone and just hundreds of apps, there are 1000s of portals to this type of porn content that are incredibly difficult for parents to oversee effectively. And so it really is a dire situation and and so that’s why a lot of my work focuses also on trying to help pass better laws to back parents up and to protect our kids.”
Clare Morell recommends this book to parents of young kids: “Good Pictures Bad Pictures: Porn-Proofing Today’s Young Kids” by Kristen Jenson.
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