Stop platforms promoting sexual violence!
To the European Commission and and national-level authorities known as Digital Services Coordinators
Petition
We’re calling on the European Commission and national authorities to:
- force Google, Yahoo and other search engines to stop indexing and promoting sites hosting sexual violence,
- ensure platforms remove and block access to this content at scale,
- use the Digital Services Act to hold companies accountable and protect women,
- close enforcement gaps that allow cross-border abuse networks to persist.
Why is this important?
More than 20,000 videos of women being raped while unconcious.
62 millions visits to a single website hosting these videos in just one month.
A CNN investigation uncovered what they called an “online rape academy”. A website where men share footage of sexual violence against unconscious women, and openly exchange instructions on how to commit it. [1]
They discuss sedatives and dosages. They advise each other on how to avoid detection. They upload videos of assaults, often filmed in their own homes.
This is not hidden in the darkest corners of the internet. It’s accessible through mainstream platforms and can be found through search engines we use every day.
And it is not confined to one country. These networks operate across borders, including throughout Europe.
Platforms like Google, Yahoo and others recommend, and drive traffic to these sites.
This is how we stop it: cut visibility, cut traffic, cut profit. Europe already has a law that could help stop this - but right now, it’s not being used to protect women from this kind of abuse.
The European Commission can force search engines and platforms to stop leading people to these sites and cut off the traffic that keeps them alive.
Every day this content remains online is another day violence is normalised, and allowed to continue. Add your name to help shut this down!
References:
- https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2026/03/world/expose-rape-assault-online-vis-intl