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TikTok profiting from sexual livestreams involving children, BBC told
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Posted on 03/03/2025 11:55:56 AM PST by nickcarraway

TikTok is profiting from sexual livestreams performed by teens as young as 15, the BBC has been told.

We spoke to three women in Kenya who said they began this activity as teenagers. They told us they used TikTok to openly advertise and negotiate payment for more explicit content that would be sent via other messaging platforms.

TikTok bans solicitation but the company knows it takes place, moderators have told the BBC. TikTok takes a cut of about 70% from all livestream transactions, we have previously found.

TikTok told the BBC it has "zero tolerance for exploitation".

Livestreams from Kenya are popular on TikTok - each night over the course of a week, we found up to a dozen in which women performers danced suggestively, watched by hundreds of people around the world.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: childabuse; internet; socialmedia; tiktok

1 posted on 03/03/2025 11:55:56 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Evil.


2 posted on 03/03/2025 12:08:55 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: No name given

Just wow reading the thread info


3 posted on 03/03/2025 12:25:06 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: nickcarraway

Nasty, filthy, dirty stuff. Stay far away.


4 posted on 03/03/2025 12:25:10 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: nickcarraway

Blaming TikTok is like blaming the gun.


5 posted on 03/03/2025 12:25:59 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: nickcarraway

TikTok and those who use it are sick.


6 posted on 03/03/2025 1:10:03 PM PST by sipow
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