Progress Report! Comcast Improves Streaming and Internet Tools to Better Protect Families
We have an exciting update from the National Center on Sexual Exploitation’s recent meeting with top executives from Comcast here in Washington DC. Right away they told us about how they took our feedback and concerns from our meeting last year and how they have made key improvements based on that feedback! While we are…
Comcast Executives Are Making Significant Improvement to Digital Well-Being and Safety Features
Comcast NBC Universal executives met with the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) last week to discuss improvements Comcast is making for digital well-being and safety. After three years on our Dirty Dozen List and many letters, emails, and phone calls back and forth with their leadership, Comcast executives told us: “We took your feedback…
The Failure of Comcast in the #MeToo Era
Trigger warning: image included which lists names of pornography titles being sold by Comcast. There are no hypersexualized or nude images, only words. In today’s #MeToo culture, where sexual harassment and assault are rampant, corporations like Comcast have a renewed corporate responsibility to refrain from facilitating or profiting from material that promotes sexual exploitation. However,…
Join the #CleanUpComcast Twitter Storm With One Click
Comcast really hates to get bad reviews via social media. Make sure they hear us loud & clear that Comcast profiting from racist, incest, and teen-themed pornography and sexual exploitation is not ok! Bombard them on Twitter with #CleanUpComcast and let us know if you get any replies from them! Twitter: @ncose, Email: public@ncose.com. Click…
Twelve Days of Action: Half-Way Through This Year’s Dirty Dozen List
While we’ve had a number of victories, the targets on the 2017 Dirty Dozen List have avoided changing their policies. They are still facilitating sexual exploitation. Examples of minimal progress: Comcast promised to implement changes, but insists on still selling extremely violent pornography. EBSCO Information Services has made some efforts to clean up their K-12 school…
Progress Report: Meeting with the U.S. Department of Education, New Campaigns, and More
I have a sign in my office that says simply: “Communicate results.” It’s meant to remind me to tell our supporters the good things we are accomplishing. Yet, things have been happening so fast this year that I find it difficult to honor that command. So, here is a quick update on this last week:…
Here’s What You Can Do To #CleanUpComcast
Are you inviting pornography distributors into your home? Comcast is a well-respected mainstream company that provides cable TV, high-speed Internet, and Xfinity video-on-demand. However, Comcast is also a major distributor of hardcore pornography, which is why it is on NCOSE’s 2017 Dirty Dozen List. Through its on-demand videos and premium channel services, Comcast sells pornography with…
Call Comcast Executives! Join Us For An Action Blitz Against This Mainstream Pornography Distributor
Join us for our call blitz to tell Comcast to stop selling hardcore pornography! Comcast is a well-respected mainstream company that provides cable TV, high-speed Internet, and Xfinity video-on-demand. However, Comcast is also a major distributor of hardcore pornography. Through its on-demand videos and premium channel services, Comcast sells pornography with racist themes, incest themes, and teen themes. We…
#ComcastCares? Then Why Does It Sell Sexually Exploitive Material?
Saturday, #ComcastCaresDay began trending on Twitter as Comcast launched its annual corporate volunteer event. As the hashtag began climbing, though, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation addressed the irony that although Comcast claims to care about building communities, it also has defending selling pornography with racist, sexist, and violent themes. NCOSE spoke out on Twitter,…
Progress from Verizon!
Verizon has a long history of profiting from hardcore pornography. Verizon has even defended teen, rape, incest, and racist-themed pornography as a benefit to their customers! Of course, we know that pornography is neurologically and psychologically harmful, and inextricably synonymous with sexual exploitation. However, we do have encouraging news! After we met with Verizon’s CEO and…