Children and young people encounter sexualised violence in various forms on the internet. Keeping them away from (allegedly) age-inappropriate content has been an ambivalent goal of youth media protection, which has been pursued with various measures since the beginning of the spread of the Internet. Today, the main aim is to effectively counter the risks that can arise from communication and exchange with other users. The theme of today's Safer Internet Day, "No likes for lies", is also relevant here, as manipulated and falsified images are often used to persuade young people to engage in sexual activity online or to blackmail them. There are various counselling services and helplines that can be contacted in case of non-consensual sharing and distribution of such images. There are also a number of technical measures that can be used to identify fake images and prevent their unauthorised distribution. These techniques can be applied both at the level of the user's own device and at the level of the names of the domains on which such content is hosted.
Jutta Croll & Torsten Krause give an overview of the different approaches in their article "Sexualisierte Gewalt online technisch erkennen und bekämpfen", which will be published in the next issue of the Merz magazine - Medien und Erziehung in mid-April 2025 and can already be pre-ordered.