Perhaps we should all be banned from social media

Focusing only on under-16s obscures the lack of internet safeguards for everyone else

‘The kids don’t get days off. Nor should you’: my secret life as a paedophile hunter on the dark web

US undercover investigator Greg Squire can spend 18 hours a day befriending child sex abusers, to try to identify them and get justice for victims. He reveals the toll the work has taken on him Greg Squire can never forget the video that opened his eyes to what child sexual abuse could mean. It was a Sunday and he was at his home in New Hampshire, sitting out on his deck, his two young children running around, playing. This was 2008, about a year into Squire’s career as an agent for Homeland Security – he’d been a postman before this – and he reached for his laptop, checked his inbox and saw that the results of an email search warrant for a suspect had come in. He clicked on a video. A girl was sitting in an adult bed, a child’s picture book beside her. Squire watched as a man came into the frame and began reading it to her. For a moment, it could have been a normal scene – maybe it would be – until the man proceeded to remove the girl’s clothing. Then he raped her. Squire watched her “endure” it – “it looked like her soul left,” he says. Continue reading...

By Anna Moore

India discussing age-based restrictions with social media firms, top minister says

The comments come after Australia in December became the first to ban users under the age of 16 from accessing major social media platforms.