@mike-salter.bsky.social discusses how survivors of #ChildSexualAbuse material remain among the internet’s most neglected victims, enduring lifelong violations while tech companies and governments prioritise digital freedom over their safety and justice: buff.ly/vTM0AzM

“The Tor Project stands alone in its extremist views and management: what internet platform does less to secure the human rights owed to children to be free from sexual exploitation?” www.linkedin.com/pulse/funder...

My op ed co-authored with Matt Tyler - Australia stands at a critical juncture: will we do what’s needed to prevent an impending child sexual abuse crisis? www.abc.net.au/religion/aus...

An important explainer from @cdnchildprotect.bsky.social Director of Tech Lloyd Richardson on the role of the Tor Project in facilitating the mass sexual abuse and exploitation of children protectchildren.ca/en/press-and...

Finally - mainstream media coverage of the massive child sex offender communities on Tor, and the role of the Tor Project in facilitating the distribution of child sexual abuse material www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Australia's #Childcare safety reforms are the 'bare minimum' parents should expect and reveal just how poor regulation has been #ChildSafety #ChildProtection #Safeguarding www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

UNSW Childlight Hub deputy Dr Delanie Woodlock quoted in this article on what to tell kids who were sexually abused as infants - she points out that the abuse of babies has been overlooked, but the digital evidence shows they are being targeted for exploitation www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

I’m supervising Nicolette Bell’s honours project on sexual wellbeing amongst Australian women who have survived child sexual abuse. If you are a woman, in Australia, who has experienced child sexual abuse, please consider filling out this 15 minute survey: unsw.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Looking forward to this book - Kate Price is a survivor and expert in family-based child sexual exploitation. This will be an important autobiography www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

C3P had the privilege of hosting child protection experts Dr. Elly Hanson, Prof. Jon Rouse, retired SSA Jim Cole, and @mike-salter.bsky.social in the last few weeks. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. The work you do is changing survivors' lives and we are so lucky to learn from the best!

French surgeon Joel Le Scouarnec sentenced to 20 years behind bars — the maximum penalty for aggravated rape, for sexually abusing hundreds of people, mostly children, over decades #CSA Child Sexual Abuse #Rape #SexualAssault France www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

The podcast series Arachnid is now live, highlighting the human costs of decades of inaction over child sexual abuse material, with a focus on the pioneering work of @cdnchildprotect.bsky.social. Listen to the first two episodes here: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a...

A research team created a 2 billion-message Discord dataset and published it online: www.404media.co/researchers-...

The Qld state government has introduced legislation that would limit the use of 'good character' references when determining penalties in #Rape and #SexualAssault cases. #LawReform #YourReferenceAintRelevant #CSA Child Sexual Abuse Qld Australia audio duration: 6:27 www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Some of the tech industry’s biggest corporations are cracking down on employees who criticize their policies, stifling worker activism that was once ubiquitous in Silicon Valley. The companies are rejecting worker petitions, firing employees, and removing critical posts on internal message boards.

We 100% back Children’s Commissioner Anne Hollonds call for an inquiry into the residential care system, including the sexual exploitation of children in the system. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

"In some parts of Australia, one-third of the children in residential care are feared to be sexually exploited." In the last financial year in Vic, 156 of the 472 children in residential care were believed to be sexually exploited. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

The Nigerian sexual extortion network boasting about their offences on TikTok

The Anglican bishop who took on sexual abuse in the church #CCSA Clerical Child Sexual Abuse #CSA #AbuseByClergy #Coverup #MaleSurvivor NSW Australia www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

Lawsuit reveals that Pornhub knowingly hosted videos of child sexual abuse material with view counts of 600 million plus. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/o...

Another boon to Elon Musk... Trump administration to stop US research on space pollution, in boon to Elon Musk www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Facebook’s implemention of E2E encryption is indisputably providing cover for child sex offenders and putting children’s lives at risk - the data is clear www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...

Virginia Giuffre, prominent survivor of Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse, dies by suicide

Trump has indefinitely withdrawn federal funding for: • Investigating child sexual abuse and internet crimes against kids; • Responding to reports of missing children; • Preventing youth violence New, @propublica.org

Zuckerberg trying to push child safety upstream to the app stores to stymie regulation that would hold Meta accountable www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Dating apps are helping Australians find love, but a new study has revealed they're also helping predators find victims. Institute Associate + Director of Childlight East Asia and Pacific Hub, Professor @mike-salter.bsky.social spoke to RNBreakfast about his research. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

This is an incredibly important point to grasp at this moment in history. Don’t let American big tech and its useful idiots weaponise tariffs against online safety legislation. www.theneweuropean.co.uk/britain-must...

Last night, we officially launched the East Asia and Pacific Hub of @childlightgcsi.bsky.social, where I’m honoured to be inaugural director. We are dedicated to research for impact on child sexual exploitation and abuse. Find out more about our work at: www.childlight.org/east-asia-pa...

🚨Swipe wrong 🚨 👩‍👧‍👧Single parents who use dating sites are at risk of being targeted by child sex abusers. 👨‍💻New research shows child abusers are more likely to use dating sites. 🛡️Dating sites can and must improve safeguarding bit.ly/3GaUZSU #AbuseIsPreventable

Real weird areas going on at Attorney-General's Dept as procurement for critical services for child sex abuse victim-survivors and non-offending family of perpetrators are delayed again and again. Damning audit is on the way, ethical conduct in spotlight. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/...

Good on @squigglyrick.bsky.social for exposing this scandal: national child sexual abuse support and prevention services committed to in 2021 are still not funded in 2025, leaving children at risk and non-govt orgs struggling to deliver vital services www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/...

I'm a guest on the @who.int #noexcuse podcast this week to discuss child sexual exploitation and abuse in the aid sector www.who.int/podcasts/epi...

🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️Race with Grace! 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️ This year, the Grace Tame Foundation has partnered with some of Australia’s leading running festivals, allowing our supporters to get out there and get active while raising much-needed funds for the Foundation to continue its vital work.

“At 26, I grieve for my childhood, and I’m angry that one person had the ability to take that away from me for their own satisfaction.” www.smh.com.au/national/i-g...

Is social media impacting dissociative identity disorder self-diagnosis? What clinicians need to know @mike-salter.bsky.social journals.lww.com/hrpjournal/f...

I also had very similar thoughts watching the show. And this part, to me, was really missing:

That’s a new one.

I'm in the @australia.theguardian.com today talking about Adolescence and the link between social media, misogyny and boys' violence. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Vita led this paper on “Barriers and Facilitators for Sexual Trauma Disclosure in Boys and Men: A Systematic Review” - the first publication from her PhD journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Underscores the importance of digital sovereignty - the right of the democratic polity to determine how the internet operates within our jurisdiction, not according to the demands of a foreign power www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

It is critical to take a holistic approach to preventing child sexual abuse. In this article, @mike-salter.bsky.social and Kelly Maree Austin explore the barriers to support for secondary prevention programs. #CSAprevention #SecondaryPrevention #PoliticalWill www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Join Emily Maguire, Professor Michael Salter and Kathleen Maltzahn on Friday 28 March as they explore approaches to sexual violence prevention. Facilitated by Professor Fiona Vera-Gray, this event will explore what works, where the gaps are & how to respond to the challenges of today: zurl.co/1FCl2

Great interview with Jess ahead of the release of her Quarterly Essay tomorrow, which focuses in the importance of addressing child maltreatment in the prevention of gender-based violence www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

Since the Tasmanian inquiry into child sexual abuse, evidence of cascading governance failures in the state continue to accumulate. In this instance, allegedly falsified death certificates in the same hospital that permitted a paedophile nurse to abuse children for years.

The readiness of “digital rights” activists to throw sexually abused children under the bus to defend end-to-end encryption is extraordinary. They don’t hesitate, they don’t blink, they don’t propose effective alternatives.

Can't anything just stay science fiction anymore?

@milliganreports.bsky.social on paedophile priest Gerard Ridsdale: “There was a class photo of boys at a school where Ridsdale was based for a time with a ring of paedophile Christian Brothers, and there were 13 kids from that class photo who were dead.” www.smh.com.au/national/lou...

Tech firms couldn’t win the arguments in Westminster and Brussels, so their new tactic is geopolitics as a route to minimise their regulatory exposure. Let’s see this clearly for what it is. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Just finished delivering our pilot training on shame sensitive practice here in Warrnambool to the amazing staff at the Sexual Assault and Family Violence Centre!