WASHINGTON — Religiously inspired anti-porn lobby NCOSE released this week its latest annual “Dirty Dozen” list of companies it is currently targeting, focusing exclusively on online platforms, websites and companies.
Unlike previous lists — which variously included hotel chains, government and military departments and even the entire state of Nevada — the 2023 list of NCOSE targets signals a commitment to the group’s single-minded campaign to eradicate or severely limit access to adult content online.
The 12 companies the group — formerly known as Morality in Media — is spotlighting as “dirty” in 2023 are: Apple’s App Store, Discord, eBay, Instagram, Kik, Microsoft’s GitHub, OnlyFans, Reddit, Roblox, Spotify and Twitter.
Identifying Instagram as “dirty” confirms the group commitment to ensuring that the company continues its policy of discrimination against sex workers and sexual content. As XBIZ reported, NCOSE has boasted of holding policy meetings with Instagram leadership, which the Meta company has not denied.
The inclusion of Reddit and Twitter reinforces the group’s current core mission of forcing those two open platforms to ban all adult content. NCOSE is also attempting to obtain the same result by lobbying Apple’s App Store — also included this year among the “dirty” companies — to pressure Reddit and Twitter to eliminate all adult content and sex worker accounts.
“Those on our 2023 Dirty Dozen List were included for facilitating a diverse set of sexual exploitation issues,” claimed NCOSE’s Vice President and Director of Corporate Advocacy Lina Nealon while unveiling the group’s list on Instagram.
Nealon — who admittedly spends time on Snapchat impersonating a 14-year-old girl for research purposes — also stated her notion that “sexual abuse and exploitation are on the rise and are facilitated by digital platforms” and called for tech platforms “to stop their products from threatening the safety of children and enabling sexual abuse to happen to people of all ages.”
Religious News Sites Echo NCOSE’s Target List
Religious news sites immediately echoed NCOSE’s annual hit list. The Baptist Press asserted that the anti-porn group provided “documented examples directly captured from the tech sites and corroborating information supporting the accusations of sexual exploitation, with avenues for public advocacy for change.”
Last month, NCOSE launched a new campaign to eradicate all adult content on Reddit, another of its “dirty” companies. In an open letter, the group calls for the platform to take action against “hardcore pornography and sexually explicit content.”
Founded in 1961 by clergy, NCOSE rebranded in 2015, adopting its current name, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation — but has maintained its media censorship focus, even recently labeling mainstream publications like Sports Illustrated and Cosmopolitan “hardcore pornography.”
NCOSE considers all sexually explicit content, regardless of consent, to be exploitative, likens it to trafficking, and has denied the very possibility of consensual sex work.
