Richard Hogan: Big companies are pornifying our children, why are we letting this happen?

As explicit content becomes harder to control, parents and lawmakers must act fast to protect children from online harm
Richard Hogan: Big companies are pornifying our children, why are we letting this happen?

Richard Hogan: It is incredible, almost incomprehensible, that the makers of this app are able to promote it as, “the world’s 1st Apple-approved porn app.” Apple have not approved it.

‘Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water” is the famous tagline from the 1978 movie Jaws 2, the sequel to Jaws.

I remember, as a child, reading this terrifying caption. The image of the woman swimming away carefree, not knowing a monster was about to devour her, played on my mind. Life feels a bit like that.

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