{"id":1805,"date":"2021-12-14T08:32:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T08:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helpusdefend.com\/?page_id=1805"},"modified":"2022-04-11T23:54:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T23:54:21","slug":"podcast-episode-7-companion","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/helpusdefend.com\/?page_id=1805","title":{"rendered":"Podcast &#8211; Episode 7 Companion"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1805\" class=\"elementor elementor-1805\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1f3c41d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1f3c41d\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e3719c5\" data-id=\"e3719c5\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-664318c elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-media_audio\" data-id=\"664318c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-media_audio.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h5>Listen to this page! Narrated by Lilani<\/h5><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1805-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/helpusdefend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Episode-7-compainion-Dark-Side-of-the-Web.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/helpusdefend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Episode-7-compainion-Dark-Side-of-the-Web.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/helpusdefend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Episode-7-compainion-Dark-Side-of-the-Web.mp3\">https:\/\/helpusdefend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Episode-7-compainion-Dark-Side-of-the-Web.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9258a3c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9258a3c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.44; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Updated: December 14, 2021<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.44; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.44; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Episode Background:<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"> In the episode \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Snowmegle<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u201d, a group of 11-year-olds during a sleepover find a fictional website called Snowmegle (a parody of Omegle). The girls find out the hard way that random video chat sites are usually filled with adults looking to be sexual and obscene with anyone, including kids.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.44; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.44; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Highly Sexual Environment <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">&#8211; Sites like Omegle are often filled with predators of all kinds. Up until 2020, Omegle actually had a warning on the main page of their site warning of predators on their site. Often sexual imagery in the form of ads or live persons pollute the landscape of these kinds of sites. Filled primarily with men masturbating or looking to get any female nude, Omegle and similar sites in recent months have come under fire for their lack of oversight and monitoring. Often men who seek to get females nude do so under the guise that nobody else will ever know or see.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.44; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Recordings\/Porn Sites Upload<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"> &#8211; Under the guise that nobody else will ever know or see what\u2019s happening on Omegle, females are often tricked into getting sexual with strangers. Often these men will record the encounter and post it to pornographic sites. Search \u201cOmegle\u201d on any website that hosts amateur pornographic content and you\u2019ll often find hundreds or thousands of videos from Omegle that have been recorded (often unknowingly to the females) and uploaded. These videos garner tens of thousands of views on these types of content. They often are saved and re-uploaded on other websites. These videos usually lack any kind of meaningful consent and often victims of this kind of crime, when notified, find it very difficult for the videos to ever be erased from existence. Child sex abuse material (CSAM) often is created under these types of circumstances, when the victim is unaware of the recording. CSAM will have negative consequences for handlers of that kind of content but generally when pairing together random strangers from all parts of the world, it\u2019s hard for law enforcement to have any effect on trafficking of this kind of material.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.44; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Lack of Age Verification\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">&#8211; Because age verification on these sites usually means clicking a button to affirm you\u2019re an adult and nothing more, anything usually goes. From people trying to lure others into doing sexual acts or the possibility of grooming (in long distance relationships), this is certainly not an environment that breeds healthy choices.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.44; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Thought to be safe spaces<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"> &#8211; In this episode we hear the parent of the child who\u2019s allowing a sleepover, tell another parent that there will be supervision. This may give a false sense of security to another parent looking for assurances. The older sister in this scenario actively encouraged the usage of Snowmegle and didn\u2019t give much thought to the potential consequences. Spaces like this often can clash family values and disrupt positive influences temporarily. This kind of lack of supervision is reckless although it\u2019s not given too much thought if nothing overtly stands out as being problematic about the sleepover experience. Damage to a child\u2019s psyche can occur from only one negative experience like this.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.44; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.44; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Emotional wellness <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">&#8211; Children on these types of sites may find it comforting that others may be like them. Loners or those with depression may find sites like Omegle entertaining, because it often allows those who may be shy or socially awkward an opportunity to make \u2018friends\u2019 and chat with others. As there are no meaningful filters, people that use these types of sites typically have poor boundaries and exploitation of all kinds often arises. An addictive quality to these types of sites may find users spending a lot of time with people they won\u2019t ever truly know. Often to get what they want, men will say or do anything to keep female users engaged and to prevent them from moving on to the next person. The site allows for a \u2018dump\u2019 of the current connection to move onto someone else for whatever reason. This may also feed into negative health or relationship traits, reinforcing that someone just needs to click on a button to get rid of their problem (on screen). Often, kids that use this site lack emotional maturity and are depraved in some way from real life meaningful connections.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><div>\u00a0<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.44; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Safety Tips<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.44; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.44; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Communicate Openly<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.44; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Talk to kids about porn or sites like Omegle. Talk to kids about sexuality! If you don\u2019t they may go learn from others online in venues like this. Discuss with pre-teens the potential risks of these types of sites, and prepare them with a game plan for when your child is attempting to sleepover at a friend\u2019s house.\u00a0 A situation where a child doesn\u2019t take part in activities like this during a sleepover could ostracize a child or socially mark them in the playground.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.44; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.44; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Built-in Safeguards<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.44; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Use filters and systems like Apple\u2019s Screen Time (watch a demo here &#8211; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zJEa8W3ho94https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zJEa8W3ho94\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zJEa8W3ho94<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"> ) where you can add websites your child can go to, not allowing all others. Third-party monitoring software often comes with liability and cost. Make sure your kids (age appropriate) can\u2019t add apps without permission. Watch out for apps that store hidden content like pictures or videos (most look\/function like other apps like calculators).\u00a0 Obviously this will only go so far if children come together for a sleepover from different households. Make an agreement with the parent overseeing the sleepover so that devices are taken away during the sleepover and consistent monitoring is taking place.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.44; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Monitor Emotional Health<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.44; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Major changes in behaviour could be a sign of trauma or harm in a child. Children that are withdrawn or socially awkward could be at higher risk for grooming, seeking out this kind of\u00a0 sexualized content or connection with others. Keep talking to your child about issues of all kinds. Make sure nothing is embarrassing to talk about. Connecting with your child can be a lifesaver.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.44; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Treatment May Be Helpful<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.44; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">If you discover your child has been viewing pornography or undertaking in activities depicted in the episode, keep calm and stay rational. Remember what it was like to be at that age with hormones running wild. Sexuality should flourish within reasonable boundaries. Shame likely should have no part of discussions with children and if it does, YOU may want to seek support from a professional (like a therapist). Organizations like Parents Aware <a href=\"https:\/\/parentsaware.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/parentsaware.info\/<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"> may be a helpful resource for parents dealing with these kinds of issues. Keep an open mind and be aware that you may only be scratching the surface of what\u2019s really going on.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Removal of Indecent Images<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">While it\u2019s best that CSAM isn\u2019t created in the first place, some parents may find themselves in a situation where a child has been duped into something foolish. Organizations like the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.missingkids.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NCMEC<\/a>) in the United States and the <a href=\"https:\/\/protectchildren.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canadian Centre for Child Protection in Canada<\/a> operate Cybertip. They also have resources that may be helpful in getting CSAM removed from websites although that may have limitations. Finding out the companies that host the servers for pornographic sites may be difficult but it may be fruitful in sending a cease and desist letter or contacting law enforcement with this kind of information.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-aeefb89 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"aeefb89\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-medium\">Watch episode 7 of Dark Side of the Web NOW!<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-09a3570 elementor-widget elementor-widget-video\" data-id=\"09a3570\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;youtube_url&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/watch?v=iyMvE-Pal5g&quot;,&quot;video_type&quot;:&quot;youtube&quot;,&quot;controls&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"video.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-wrapper elementor-open-inline\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-video\"><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated: December 14, 2021 \u00a0 Episode Background: In the episode \u201cSnowmegle\u201d, a group of 11-year-olds during a sleepover find a fictional website called Snowmegle (a parody<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"wp_social_preview_title":"","wp_social_preview_description":"","wp_social_preview_image":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1805","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpusdefend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpusdefend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpusdefend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpusdefend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpusdefend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1805"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/helpusdefend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2364,"href":"https:\/\/helpusdefend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1805\/revisions\/2364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpusdefend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}