The U.S. has many fine, well-established hotlines and helplines designed to help with specific social problems (dating abuse, depression, domestic violence, etc.) or support vulnerable populations (such as LGBTQ youth). This helpline is about the online expression of those social problems and types of victimization: usually called “abusive content,” the kind of content that typically violates […]
Youth-serving Internet helplines worldwide
Americans may be interested to know that there are Internet-related helplines in 31 European countries, as well as in Australia and New Zealand. Europe’s helplines are run by Safer Internet Centres (in 27 of the EU member states, plus Iceland, Norway, Russia and Serbia), which make up the Brussels-based INSAFE network established by the European Commission […]