The battle against pornography and sexual exploitation is raging, and staggering are the accounts of casualties that pornography leaves in its wake.
Thousands weighed in to complain, especially of the child-themed porn Verizon was featuring. All the videos we complained of are now gone from Verizon’s porn offerings!
In May, we had a productive meeting with GOOGLE about how they can help protect individuals, families and children from exploitation. Today, we are seeing the fruits of that meeting.
We’ve had a busy, productive week! Our meeting with the newly appointed Chairman of the FCC, Tom Wheeler, left us enthusiastic that our efforts are making a difference. Chairman Wheeler’s fortified his commitment to maintaining the current decency standards, affirming a new standard to allow nudity will not be implemented.
One reason Google was put on our Dirty Dozen List for two years in a row is because their app store was full of pornography and other inappropriate apps. Last year Google improved their policies slightly. But this year they are removing all of these apps from the store completely.
This week’s decision of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirming the conviction of hardcore pornographer Ira Isaacs serves as a reminder that distribution of hardcore adult pornography is still illegal under federal law in America.
In 1865, following the most costly war in America’s history, the 13th Amendment abolished the odious institution of slavery in the United States.
Why, then, is telecommunications giant Verizon providing an outlet for the products of the modern-day slavery of sex trafficking?
Broadband and telecommunications giant Verizon is under fire for defending its decision to provide hard-core porn titles with child and incest themes. The company was included in the 2014 Dirty Dozen List of pornography’s leading facilitators, compiled by Morality in Media (MIM), a national organization that opposes pornography.
Verizon is defending its distribution of child-theme pornography in a letter to Morality in Media, which included the company on its 2014 Dirty Dozen List of pornography’s top facilitators. The company believes that it’s “explosion of choice” in pornography is a “tremendous benefit” to consumers, according to a letter from Verizon’s Director of Global Corporate Citizenship.
Google reached out to us. A man sold his $500,000 investment in Verizon stock because of their enormous profit from pornography. Mumbai ranked #10 for site visitors’ location….
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Morality in Media announces the 2014 Dirty Dozen List, a compilation of the leading facilitators of pornography in America.
President Obama spoke plainly when he said, “Sexual assault is an affront to our basic decency and humanity.” And to sexual assault victims, he said, “I’ve got your back.”
