even before the pandemic. During the pandemic, NCMEC reported a 106-percent increase in the sharing of CSAM globally. The increased number of offenders exchanging CSAM during lockdowns has continued to stimulate demand for CSAM beyond the lockdowns. (6) Project Arachnid is a web platform administered by the Canadian Centre for Child Protection (referred to in this section as C3P ) that is designed to detect known images of CSAM and issue removal notices to electronic service providers when possible. C3P has reported, It is a common misconception that CSAM and harmful-abusive content are relegated solely to the dark web. . In fact, 97 percent of the illegal media detected by Project Arachnid hides in plain sight on the clear web on image or file hosting services, forums, content delivery networks, and both mainstream adult pornography websites, such as Pornhub, XVideos, OnlyFans, and YouPorn, and fringe adult pornography websites. (7) In 2021, NCMEC reported that a majority of CSAM reports, more than 29,157,083 out of 29,397,681, came from electronic service providers. (8) An alarming and increasing number of adults are being depicted in online pornography without their knowledge or consent. These individuals are often victims of sexual abuse, sex trafficking, rape, sexual exploitation, sextortion, and forms of image-based sexual abuse such as nonconsensual distribution of sexually explicit material. (9) Most pornography websites do not effectively verify the age of the users who upload content to their platforms. Nor do these websites make an effort to effectively verify the age, consent, or identity of all individuals who are depicted in the pornographic content. (10) Pornography websites attract hundreds of millions of visitors daily. The 2 most-visited pornography websites in 2023, for example, reported attracting more than 693,500,000 and 629,500,000 monthly users, respectively, each exceeding the traffic of Netflix, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, or LinkedIn. (11) Pornography websites profit from the