Speeches by Asato.

“Thank you.”

“We have heard a fair bit about VPNs and other workarounds being used by children to bypass age verification requirements. To what extent do you think that that is happening at scale? How should we approach the issue of VPN use?”

“You are denying that this police data exists on sexual communication with a child offences being related to anything to do with Snap.”

“We literally heard a witness just earlier, Esther Ghey, talk about a close friend of hers whose child was invited to a forum where there were children who were nude—it was illegal child sexual abuse material. We literally heard that today. Even one case is too many, surely.”

“Analysis by the NSPCC, which is a major child-protection charity here in the UK, looked at police data for offences of sexual communication with a child. It ranked Snapchat as clearly first among platforms being used. In 2024-25, of 2,111 offences where the police identified a platform, 40% were on Snapchat. You said j…”

“The NSPCC, as you said earlier, Rani, proposed a risk-based approach to children’s access to social media. You have explained how some of that will work in practice, but I am interested in understanding more about the effective enforcement by platforms and regulators, because we have heard quite a bit of criticism of O…”

“We literally heard a witness just earlier, Esther Ghey, talk about a close friend of hers whose child was invited to a forum where there were children who were nude—it was illegal child sexual abuse material. We literally heard that today. Even one case is too many, surely.”

“Why don’t you just ensure that your app, when it is used by children, bans nudes by default? Why do you not just ban any kind of sharing or receiving of nude pictures? We know that that is technologically possible, so why don’t you just put that on right here, right now, so that it is just not possible for a child to d…”

“We literally heard a witness just earlier, Esther Ghey, talk about a close friend of hers whose child was invited to a forum where there were children who were nude—it was illegal child sexual abuse material. We literally heard that today. Even one case is too many, surely.”

“We have heard a fair bit about VPNs and other workarounds being used by children to bypass age verification requirements. To what extent do you think that that is happening at scale? How should we approach the issue of VPN use?”

“Andy, do you have anything to add?”

“You are denying that this police data exists on sexual communication with a child offences being related to anything to do with Snap.”

“The NSPCC, as you said earlier, Rani, proposed a risk-based approach to children’s access to social media. You have explained how some of that will work in practice, but I am interested in understanding more about the effective enforcement by platforms and regulators, because we have heard quite a bit of criticism of O…”

“I know plenty of colleagues have questions to ask, but may I interrupt? It is absurd to say that 15 years ago the sharing of child sexual abuse material was not a problem. It was. There were issues involving illegal child sexual abuse material right from the very design of the internet and then with social media platfo…”

“Thank you.”

“The NSPCC, as you said earlier, Rani, proposed a risk-based approach to children’s access to social media. You have explained how some of that will work in practice, but I am interested in understanding more about the effective enforcement by platforms and regulators, because we have heard quite a bit of criticism of O…”

“Andy, do you have anything to add?”

“Andy, do you have anything to add?”

“I know plenty of colleagues have questions to ask, but may I interrupt? It is absurd to say that 15 years ago the sharing of child sexual abuse material was not a problem. It was. There were issues involving illegal child sexual abuse material right from the very design of the internet and then with social media platfo…”

“Why don’t you just ensure that your app, when it is used by children, bans nudes by default? Why do you not just ban any kind of sharing or receiving of nude pictures? We know that that is technologically possible, so why don’t you just put that on right here, right now, so that it is just not possible for a child to d…”