I went undercover to a “strategy meeting” of a group of perpetrators of spreading sexual images…
[Video Share] and [Album Collection]. Sexual photos and videos are traded on these apps, which were offered on platforms used on a daily basis. They are collected as part of voyeurism, hacking, and revenge pornography, and spread without the person’s knowledge….
The reality of the proliferation of sexual images, as pursued by Tsuji Tsuji of the NPO Tansa, a journalism organization, was also reported in FRIDAY Digital in an article entitled ” Unknowingly, Your Photos and Videos Become ‘Sexual Merchandise’…A ‘Hellish Structure’ Supported by a Giant Platform. The actual situation of the proliferation of images was reported by FRIDAY Digital in an article titled “Unknowingly, your photos and videos become ‘sexual products’ … a ‘hellish composition ‘ supported by a giant platform.
Last December, Tsuji published a Twitter account of a group of perpetrators of the spread of sexual images on Tansa’s website.
The Twitter account of the assailant group was made public…and the full details of the “strategy meeting” were obtained.
On Google, “Video Share” was downloaded more than 100,000 times, and on Apple, both apps were ranked among the most popular downloads.
But the police would not launch an investigation; Google and Apple ignored my letters of inquiry no matter how many I sent.
I resorted to new measures. I took a new approach: I posted on Tansa over 300 Twitter accounts of the perpetrators who were posting and spreading photos and videos on both apps. They were using Twitter to promote the photos and videos they posted.
The account holders were impatient. We hurriedly held a “strategy meeting” using Twitter’s Space feature, which allows for audio streaming.
I listened to the meeting live in the course of my undercover work.
The worst thing that could happen would be if the police were forced to act.
The meeting on the Twitter space of the perpetrators’ group was held after noon on December 14, 2010. The title of the meeting was “The Great Hide-and-Seek in the Neighborhood. There were 47 participants. The organizer was a man in Kansai with the account “Benzaiten,” one of my public ones.
He said, “It was written in that article that our profiles were scrubbed. So, the plan was to ruin it already.
Benzaiten appealed to participants to change their Twitter names, IDs, and profile information so that readers would not be able to reach the accounts published on Tansa.
It’s like, “If someone searches for us and says, ‘I’m reporting you,’ we’re not there anymore. There’s no one out there with that name. They’re like, ‘Oh, then what’s this article about? It’s bullshit.
Benzaiten was referring to an article I have been publishing on Tansa since November 2022.
He even proudly put his own face on the thumbnail.
As for the articles themselves, those people put a lot of effort into them.”
Benzaiten, on the other hand, is terrified of being identified.
He said, “For us, the worst thing that could happen is for the article to go viral or something and become a social problem, forcing the police to take action.
