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Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis (QFR Responses)

Testimony

Questioner: Mike Lee

Harm: Child sexual exploitationDesign feature: Direct MessagingInitiative: Encryption
Q. · Question

Mike Lee

A. · Response

Respondent not recorded

QuestionLee follows up on Question 3, asking whether Meta could technically restrict encrypted messaging specifically for juvenile accounts given its ability to curate age-specific experiences.

ResponseMeta declines to give a new answer, cross-referencing its Question 3 response defending encryption rather than addressing the feasibility of restricting it for minors specifically.