Two weeks into the "I Am a Witness" campaign, it's already an afterthought. The campaign brings together some of the biggest names in social media and advocacy--Twitter, Snapchat, Google, Facebook, GLSEN and the Trevor Project--to call out cyberbullying and spur change. But in many ways this campaign is a distraction. These large media companies should be doing more to make sure that children are not being exploited, and to protect victims of revenge porn and those who are being bullied. Recently, a Facebook user uploaded nude photos of underage teens from Maine. Yet Facebook had no legal responsibility to moderate and prevent these photos from being published. Facebook--and other social...
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