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Marcel van der Watt

@marcel_ht

Husband | President, @NCOSE | Ph.D. | Former Sex Trafficking Investigator & Hostage Negotiator | Keynote | Author | #EndDemand #ListentoSurvivors 🇺🇸🌎🇿🇦

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TAKE IT DOWN Act Passes House, Heads to President’s Desk🏆 WASHINGTON, DC (April 28, 2025) – The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (National Center on Sexual Exploitation) called the passage of the TAKE IT DOWN Act a victory for survivors and a way to confront mass-scale sexual abuse and criminality. “We

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The commodification/objectification/sexualization of women, and men's purchase of sexual acts, is no laughing matter Mayor Eric Adams. Uphold your stated commitments and #endDemand to prevent & fight against sexual exploitation in #NYC. NOW-NYC New Yorkers for the Equality Model medium.com/p/new-york-cit…

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We are proud to announce the release of our groundbreaking report "Not A Fantasy: How the Pornography Industry Exploits Image-based Sexual Abuse in Real Life" on May 13, which exposes how the pornography industry facilitates, normalizes, and profits from image-based sexual abuse

We are proud to announce the release of our groundbreaking report "Not A Fantasy: How the Pornography Industry Exploits Image-based Sexual Abuse in Real Life" on May 13, which exposes how the pornography industry facilitates, normalizes, and profits from image-based sexual abuse
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🎉 As The Take It Down Act heads to the president’s desk, join Haley and Eleanor Gaetan from NCOSE in our latest podcast episode. They discuss the impact of this law and upcoming protections like the Safer Devices for Kids Act. Listen now! 📻 Apple Podcasts:

🎉 As The Take It Down Act heads to the president’s desk, join Haley and Eleanor Gaetan from NCOSE in our latest podcast episode. They discuss the impact of this law and upcoming protections like the Safer Devices for Kids Act. Listen now! 📻
Apple Podcasts:
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😭 MUST read: Laila's link takes you behind paywall. Nicholas Kristof has investigated PornHub for over 5 years and he ends article w/question: "Why have we let corporations get away with abusing children?" National Center on Sexual Exploitation rights4girls CATW International WorldWE

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John stared at the screen, his heart sinking as he saw the explicit images of himself as a 13-year-old circulating on Twitter, a platform that dismissed his reports for help with the chilling message, "We've reviewed the content, and didn't find a violation of our policies, so no

John stared at the screen, his heart sinking as he saw the explicit images of himself as a 13-year-old circulating on Twitter, a platform that dismissed his reports for help with the chilling message, "We've reviewed the content, and didn't find a violation of our policies, so no
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Happening hashtag#Today [🎥 ] ⏰, Tuesday, May 13 @ 3 pm EST. There is still time to register for joining us in person in Washington, DC. Register here: web.charityengine.net/NotAFantasy-La… (close at 12 pm EST) The launch will also be livestreamed on the following platforms: LinkedIn:

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🎧 New Podcast Episode Alert! Haley McNamara takes a closer look at the "Not a Fantasy" report with special guest, Lisa Thompson. Find us on your favorite podcast app (direct links available on our blog: buff.ly/BbuNxdC) OR watch the video version on YouTube:

🎧 New Podcast Episode Alert! <a href="/HaleyMcNamara/">Haley McNamara</a>  takes a closer look at the "Not a Fantasy" report with special guest, Lisa Thompson. Find us on your favorite podcast app (direct links available on our blog: buff.ly/BbuNxdC) OR watch the video version on YouTube:
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What an incredible week! We’re deeply grateful and thrilled to add another powerful tool to our #collective arsenal in the fight against Image-Based Sexual Abuse 🏆 The National Center on Sexual Exploitation's (National Center on Sexual Exploitation) report, 'Not a Fantasy: How the Pornography Industry

What an incredible week! We’re deeply grateful and thrilled to add another powerful tool to our #collective arsenal in the fight against Image-Based Sexual Abuse 🏆 

The National Center on Sexual Exploitation's (<a href="/NCOSE/">National Center on Sexual Exploitation</a>)  report, 'Not a Fantasy: How the Pornography Industry
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Almost all - 99%- of this deepfake pornography targets #women ♀️, this is deeply gendered + utterly incompatible with #equality ⏬

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Honored to support the #NoFakesAct before the #Senate this past #Weds! As my colleague Dr. Marcel van der Watt noted, we are all "acutely vulnerable" to the harm from #deepfakes

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Celebrating the incredible Christen Price, Senior Legal Counsel at the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, who testified before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law during the hearing on "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: AI-Generated Deepfakes in 2025." 💻⚖️ [Hearing:

Celebrating the incredible <a href="/Christen_P5/">Christen Price</a>, Senior Legal Counsel at the <a href="/NCOSE/">National Center on Sexual Exploitation</a>, who testified before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law during the hearing on "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: AI-Generated Deepfakes in 2025." 💻⚖️ [Hearing:
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Great conversation on Lynn's Warriors. Covered the root issues of why social media is unsafe for kids, the prospects for reform, and the hope if AI is harnessed thoughtfully and ethically to save Gen Alpha. heatinitiative Jonathan Haidt Fairplay Design It For Us Wes Hodges

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NCOSE commends the European Union for investigating pornography websites Pornhub, XVideos, XNXX, and Stripchat for allegedly failing to protect children from accessing their sites in violation of the Digital Services Act. "Pornography tube sites can and should do more to ensure

NCOSE commends the European Union for investigating pornography websites Pornhub, XVideos, XNXX, and Stripchat for allegedly failing to protect children from accessing their sites in violation of the Digital Services Act. 
"Pornography tube sites can and should do more to ensure
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Thank you Lynn's Warriors for this important conversation about the pervasiveness of sexual #exploitation + how National Center on Sexual Exploitation is working alongside so many others to fight for #accountability! youtube.com/watch?v=g0COyc…