Dear Friend, As a toddler, Xavier* loved fire trucks. And dump trucks. And excavators. And any kind of large vehicle, really. Xavier would often sit on his Daddy’s knee in front of the computer and tell Daddy what kind of vehicle he wanted to see pictures of. One day, Xavier asked for buses. Daddy obligingly searched “buses” in Google Images. What popped up was a pornographic picture of two people having sex on a bus. This true story echoes the experiences of countless children who have been unwittingly exposed to pornography through innocent Google Searches. But thanks to your generosity, the game has radically changed! This year, after a decade of us pressing on them to do so, Google finally agreed to automatically blur sexually explicit results in Google Images. This means that children like Xavier will no longer accidentally stumble on pornography! Considering that Google Images accounts for 5.3 billion searches per day, the amount of children (and adults!) who are protected by this change is truly enormous. YOU all have done this. This incredible, long-awaited victory would never have happened without the financial support of people like you, who have fueled this mission over the past several years. Thanks to one of our generous partners, your gift will be DOUBLED through a matching grant. Please take advantage of this limited time opportunity to double the impact of your donation! |