Activists are urging South Korean authorities to do more, arguing that current laws and measures are not sufficient to keep cybercriminals in check.
Then a 23-year-old student journalist, she went back into the chatroom to dig for more information, and eventually exposed what would be known as South Korea’s largest and most disturbing case of online sexual slavery in 2019.
He had sold the content to members of the chatrooms who numbered as many as 260,000, with some paying up to US$1,200 .A so-called anti-Nth room legislation has been in place since December 2021 to strengthen punishment for digital sex crimes and make it mandatory for South Korean-owned Internet service providers to monitor their platforms and prevent the distribution of illegal content.
Cha points to widespread misogyny, which she said “forces the woman to tolerate this form of violence caused by technology”. Technology has also fuelled the number of digital sex crimes, from obscene prank calls in the 1990s to pornographic websites during the Internet boom of the 2000s. The one in Seoul, which opened in March 2022, has so far assisted more than 300 victims, from teenagers to those in their 20s and 30s, according to its director Lee Eun-jeong.
However, as digital sex crimes become more commonplace and public interest in them starts to wane, activists are worried about the effects of complacency.The original Nth Room on Telegram has ceased to exist, but the materials posted there are apparently still circulating online, a sign of how difficult it is to eradicate digital sex crimes.
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