20 year old @WIRED piece about Webe Web:
For $25 a month, "Lil' Amber" fans can ogle pictures of the little girl coyly hiking up her miniskirt or posing in a bikini on a faux bearskin rug.
wired.com/2001/07/girl-m…
For $25 a month, "Lil' Amber" fans can ogle pictures of the little girl coyly hiking up her miniskirt or posing in a bikini on a faux bearskin rug.
wired.com/2001/07/girl-m…
For $50, they can purchase a video of Amber "dancing and running around" in outfits that leave little to the imagination.
The money goes to her college fund, the site says.
The money goes to her college fund, the site says.
Webe Web argued its sites constitute a perfectly legal enterprise:
"None of our sites have naked children”.
"None of our sites have naked children”.
Members could ‘browse photos of a little blonde girl practicing yoga in a white leotard or strutting down a homemade runway in swimsuits. The site also sells videos of a coifed Jessi engaged in childish pursuits such as baking cookies or carving a pumpkin’.
‘It proved to be a successful business model. Soon, other parents were contacting Webe Web to enlist their daughters’.
Spokesman Evan Gordon said he had ‘no idea why someone would shell out $25 a month to browse pictures of little girls in bikinis’.
Webe Web also operated porn sites but Gordon insisted there was no overlap between these and the ‘child modelling’ sites.
Director of internet safety + education group Cyberangels described the content as ‘distasteful’ but not illegal.
Julie Posey, Director of Pedowatch, said ‘It's getting harder for pedophiles to function on the Internet’ and that the ‘modelling’ sites may be their way of getting around the law.
Interviewed parents claimed they were unaware of who was following their girls and knew only that it was profitable.
That was 2001, Webe Web
This is 2021, Instagram ⬇️
collectiveshout.org/sexy_girl_inst…
20 years on what have we learned? What are we doing differently?
Why are there little girls on Instagram?
When will this stop?
@CollectiveShout #endsexploitation
This is 2021, Instagram ⬇️
collectiveshout.org/sexy_girl_inst…
20 years on what have we learned? What are we doing differently?
Why are there little girls on Instagram?
When will this stop?
@CollectiveShout #endsexploitation
Later, President + Co-director Marc Evan Greenberg + Webe Web admitted ‘websites pertaining to 16 different children contained illegal images of child pornography’.
In some pics, the victims, all girls aged 8-15, were ‘wearing underwear, lingerie, bathing suits and other revealing outfits, and were posed in positions that constituted child pornography’.
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