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Parents of a British teenager who died by suicide after being blackmailed by sextortion criminals in Nigeria appeal to the perpetrators to stop targeting vulnerable individuals.

They also criticize social media companies for not doing enough to protect young people from this crime.

The Dowey family will participate in a campaign to inform young people about the risks of sextortion and provide support to victims.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

When we created the internet we achieved global unity, but we just... stopped. There is no NATO for cybercrimes. We can't punish across borders, and we can't rely on countries where cybercrime is a not insignificant portion of their economy to do the right thing. At this point the best we can do is bar the doors and keep children and other vulnerable people off the internet, but that is hardly a proper solution. We need to work together on a global scale to hold countries accountable for what their citizens do on the internet. If we don't, we might as well just pull the plug on it, because this shit has only been getting worse.