This petition was submitted during the 2017–2019 Conservative government
Rejected petition Make Twitter remove pedophiles or 'MAP' accounts and protect our children.
On Twitter there is a community of people called 'MAPs' or 'Minor Attracted Person'. They are pedophiles. I'm urging Twitter to do more to protect children and victims of abuse by banning these 'MAPs' from using their platform. We have a duty to protect children.
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I have reported MAPs and Twitter allowed these people to continue Tweeting. Twitter is used by people aged 13+, minors that we need to help. We cannot normalise pedophiles by allowing them the dignity of identifying themselves as anything but a threat. Pedophilia is not a sexual orientation. There is no way to acceptance by deceiving and disarming the public perception by legitimising their crimes. Twitter needs to rid their website of these people and do more to support victims of abuse.
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