Twitter, eBay, Instagram make ‘Dirty Dozen List’ of businesses profiting off sexual exploitation

By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Twitter

Spotify

Earphones are seen on top of a smart phone with a Spotify logo on it, in Zenica.
Earphones are seen on top of a smart phone with a Spotify logo on it, in Zenica. | REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

Founded in 2006 in Stockholm, Sweden, the music and podcast app Spotify was put on the Dirty Dozen List this year by NCOSE, which expressed surprise that the app could be used to transfer pornography to minors.

“Pornography (including content that normalizes sexual violence, child sexual abuse, and incest) can be easily found on Spotify in the form of thumbnails graphically depicting sexual activity and nudity, as well as ‘audio pornography’ (recordings of sex sounds or sexually explicit stories read aloud),” NCOSE explained.

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“In addition to this, there was a high-profile case of a child who was groomed and exploited through Spotify by predators who communicate with them through editing playlist titles, asking the child to upload sexually explicit material of themselves as thumbnails.”

Although Spotify has claimed that they prohibit pornographic content, NCOSE believes that the app fails to have a proper reporting procedure for when someone uploads such content.

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