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27/10/2025

We loved meeting our friend and ally Dr Elly Hanson in person on our recent trip to Brighton, UK!

As a clinical psychologist and researcher, Elly has made significant contributions to tackling the societal systems and cultural norms that enable harm - particularly those linked to p**nography and the wider s*x industry. We’re thrilled that Elly has also joined our global partners as part of the CEASE UK team!

27/10/2025

Student Guide: Australian Under-16 Social Media Minimum Age Law

The CTRL+Shft Coalition has created a new student guide to help young people navigate the upcoming changes for anyone under the age of 16 using social media.

'This guide helps students, parents, and educators understand the new national minimum-age requirements for platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, Facebook, YouTube, and X (Twitter) and more. It breaks down the law in plain language no jargon, no fear, just facts.

Students will learn:

➡️ Which platforms are affected and why accounts will be removed for under-16s.

➡️ How age-verification and facial-age estimation work (and what their privacy options are).

➡️ The difference between deletion and deactivation.

➡️ How to download and keep photos, videos, and messages before accounts disappear.

➡️ How to challenge a wrong age decision or report a platform that isn’t following the rules.

➡️ Their ongoing rights to privacy, safety, and respect online.

Give your students the knowledge and confidence to navigate the new law safely.
Download, print, or share the guide and help make the online world fairer, safer, and easier to understand.'

Get your guide here: https://safeonsocial.pulse.ly/ggwlntwhx2

27/10/2025

Kylie + Jackie O show breaches radio code of ethics 12 times this year

Those who have been with us for a while may recall we first spoke out against radio host Kyle Sandilands in 2011. Recall the 14-year-old r*pe survivor he made take a lie detector test when he was at Austereo?

Finally, the regulator has caught up with him.

After investigating the show’s content between August and December 2024, The Australian Communications and Media Authority [ACMA] found multiple breaches of the Commercial Radio Code of Practice in broadcasts of the Kyle and Jackie O radio show on KIIS 1.1.1 (Melb) and KIIS 106.5 (Syd).

Breaches related to shows which included a guessing game featuring audio clips of male and female staff members urinating. The hosts then had to try to guess which audio clip belong to which staff member.

“Both episodes included comments about the ge****ls of participants and, in the female staff member episode, graphic comments about menstruation and oral s*x,” ACMA said.

The watchdog also identified a game where a contestant provided a description of a s*xual position and a segment that contained “lewd discussions” about m*sturbation and p**nography websites.

This makes 12 breaches this year alone.

ACMA said it was “considering enforcement actions” to force ARN to take responsibility for content broadcast on their stations. https://acma.pulse.ly/7idzywbcrs

We urge the regulator to take this action. The show has been allowed to p**nify the airwaves for way too long.

26/10/2025

Our campaign against child s*x abuse doll sellers featured on ABC: Caitlin Roper quoted

Following our campaign against global online platforms Temu and Shein selling child s*x abuse dolls and calling for them to be pulled from sale, we exposed Temu doll sellers deceptively advertising the products as mannequin heads for wig and jewellery display and make-up practice.

Campaigns Manager Caitlin Roper told ABC the childlike dolls were advertised as “adult” dolls despite being clearly childlike and even pictured holding soft toys:

‘"A few years ago, we noted terms like 'fl*t chest', 'l0li', 'mini' and 'young girl' were used to promote these products," she said.

‘"Then we noticed a distinct change — sellers were using terms like 'adult', 'D cup', 'woman' and 'girlfriend' on dolls that were undeniably modelled on prepubescent girls."

‘In August last year, Collective Shout first exposed Temu for selling child s*x abuse dolls and replica body parts.

‘Collective Shout set up an action alert page where supporters could email Temu executives to demand the site remove all child s*x abuse dolls.

‘After several weeks and 465 supporter emails, the products were removed and the search terms "child s*x doll" and "girl s*x doll" were blocked.

‘Two weeks later, Collective Shout discovered child heads sold by a different Chinese retailer, the fast fashion brand Shein.’

25/10/2025

TikTok's algorithm is directing children to s*xual content including explicit p**nography, according to a new report by Global Witness.

From BBC News:

In late July and early August this year, researchers from campaign group Global Witness set up four accounts on TikTok pretending to be 13-year-olds.

They used false dates of birth and were not asked to provide any other information to confirm their identities.

They also turned on the platform's "restricted mode", which TikTok says prevents users seeing "mature or complex themes, such as… sexually suggestive content".

Without doing any searches themselves, investigators found overtly sexualised search terms being recommended in the "you may like" section of the app.

Ava Lee from Global Witness said the findings came as a "huge shock" to researchers.

"TikTok isn't just failing to prevent children from accessing inappropriate content - it's suggesting it to them as soon as they create an account".

Read the full article - link in comments.

25/10/2025

'Women’s near-naked bodies have been a cheap advertising tool for decades. The damage is real: girls’ mental health suffers, their self-image is distorted, and society continues to accept it.'

In this guest blog, Jana Black - founder of See Me Be Toys - unpacks the harms of Playboy-owned s*x shop Honey Birdette's p**nified window advertising on women and girls, and highlights why we must demand better.

Jana wrote this piece after being confronted with Honey Birdette's floor-to-ceiling p**n style depictions of women in a Queensland shopping centre.

24/10/2025

Flashback Friday: Veganyumm takes stand for women and girls

In one of our favourite wins EVER, last February, Brisbane specialty baker Veganyumm pulled a set of social media posts promoting a range of sugar cookies with p**n themed slogans trivialising se*xual violence against women. The company took action within minutes of us calling them out.

Veganyumm didn't stop there though! Intent on learning and improving, the owner shared a statement committing to not selling the range of cookies in future. Veganyumm then went on to sign our Corporate Pledge, committing to ensure respect for women and girls is reflected in all branding and business decisions.

We are so proud to have Veganyumm as a Corporate Pledge partner. They serve as a model for other companies - demonstrating that change is possible, and corporate social responsibility isn’t just buzzwords. (If you're in Brisbane, check them out!)

Join a growing list of companies that have pledged to uphold the dignity of women and girls in their advertising, products, and services>> https://www.collectiveshout.org/corporate_social_responsibility_pledge

24/10/2025

“We urge the Government to stay the course and not be swayed by those with vested interests who place profit before the wellbeing of young people”: Social media age of access submission

Collective Shout made a submission to the ‘Internet Search Engine Services’ inquiry conducted by the Environment and Communications References Committee this month.

In our submission, we highlighted the failure of tech giants to prioritise the safety and well-being of children and young people and the necessity to rein them in.

From our submission:

We acknowledge that these measures won’t make platforms safe. But they will delay the age at which harm begins and allow for more cognitive development, protective interventions and life-enhancing activities in the interim which will mitigate some of the worst harms. As Melinda Tankard Reist told the House Select Committee Inquiry into Social Media and Online Safety (July 10, 2024):

"This is one lever, we need to use every lever at our disposal… let’s try everything, throw everything we can at this to limit the damage that is being done, especially to vulnerable children and young people… Too much responsibility is placed on young people to monitor their own safety online and that onus should be on big tech and social media companies."

We urge the Government to stay the course and not be swayed by those with vested interests who place profit before the wellbeing of young people.

Read our full submission here: https://www.collectiveshout.org/submission-to-internet-search-engine-services-inquiry

23/10/2025

Collective Shout campaigner Swanson Kennedy contributed to International Child Safeguarding Week 2025 (Oct 20-24) - hosted by Children Safe.

In light of this year’s theme ‘Child participation in child safeguarding’, Lyn put the spotlight on risks to “kidfluencers” – and tech giants’ failure to protect children on mainstream social media platforms.

"Despite our efforts, a list of changes to Meta’s terms of service and teen safety tools, and persistent claims that child sexual exploitation has ‘no place’ on its platforms, Meta has failed to protect children. Instead, it has prioritised profit and allowed a global community of men with s*xual interest in children to flourish. It has aided and facilitated them, providing algorithm-driven directories of underage girls’ content to view and engage with."

Read the full article and browse other resources here>> https://www.keepingchildrensafe.global/icsw2025/day-3-safeguarding-online/

22/10/2025

Movement Director Melinda Tankard Reist was quoted in The Sunday Telegraph on the weekend, in a piece titled ‘Impacts of p**n on our children: New report’s shock findings’.

Children as young as 10 are being exposed to p**nography which leads to an increase in “sexual aggression” and other concerning behaviours, a new government report has found…

The report found children are accessing p**nography while still in primary school, with the average age of first exposure to p**nography being 13 years old.

Concerningly, kids as young as 10 were being exposed to harmful content including p**n advertisements on gaming apps and social media.

The committee raised a number of concerns, including the rise of deepfakes, increased sexual aggression due to the prevalence of p**nogtaphy.

Other findings showed the impacts led to an increase in sexual aggression, compulsivity and addictive behaviours.

The harms of deepfake and “nudify” apps were also highlighted in the report, stating images of young people were being taken from social media or school photos, and they are morphed into p**nography….

Collective Shout movement director Melinda Tankard Reist, who provided submissions to the inquiry, said children’s early exposure to p**nography was a “crisis”.

“The government must act urgently to address harmful sexual behaviours in schools or we will see more children perpetrating sexual harms and more children victimised,” she said.

Full article here: [paywall] https://dailytelegraph.pulse.ly/zebeacbzp1

22/10/2025

Journalist and friend of Collective Shout Jo Bartosch recently presented at the Male Allies Challenging Sexism conference in Brighton - 'P**n will tear us apart'

'Today, just over half of young men and over a third of per cent of young women say p**nography is their main source of s*x education. But of course, they’re not learning about s*x. They’ll be learning about s*dism; about choking, brutal an*l s*x and gang b*ngs. They’ll be learning that real men call women ‘wh*re’ ‘bitch’ and ‘sl*t’, and that real women revel in the degradation. And these aren’t the only dangers.'

22/10/2025

The Campaign Strategy Team have been busy! Four of us – MTR, Caitlin, Coralie and Renee – were all in the UK for the 10th anniversary of FILIA, Europe’s largest annual feminist conference, and the Male Allies Challenging Sexism conference, both held in Brighton.

Caitlin was invited to speak at FiLiA, which included 2500 attendees from around the world and speakers from 55 countries. She spoke on a panel about her book S*x Dolls, Robots and Woman Hating, and about how AI is being used as a tool of s*xual exploitation against women and girls.

MTR and Caitlin also spoke at the Male Allies Challenging S*xism conference, held alongside FiLiA designed for male partners of women attending FiLiA. MTR spoke about her research on the TikTok to OnlyF*ns pipeline, exposing how the s*x trade promotes itself to young girls, and Caitlin spoke about AI – deepfakes and n*difying/undr*ssing tech, and our work campaigning against them.

We spearheaded a new campaign against MAC cosmetics after coming across their s*xist advertising in a London mall, and met with a number of global partners working to end s*xual exploitation.

Read more about our work in the UK >> https://www.collectiveshout.org/collective-shout-uk

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