Plus, victories AND headaches continue with streaming monolith Netflix.
Plus, victories AND headaches continue with streaming monolith Netflix.
Defending Dignity Weekly Newsletter
Highlights: Victory and frustration with Netflix, EARN IT and user privacy, and more!

EARN IT Act Can Both Protect Children and Respect User Privacy, Encryption

With the EARN IT Act, in the form of the more empowered American consumer, the technology industry is provided with much-needed incentive for better protecting children from online sexual exploitation AND is still afforded an important role in protecting the rights of the U.S. consumer when it comes to privacy and governmental overreach in the digital space.
Your U.S. Senators need to hear from you! 
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VICTORY! Netflix updated its parental controls. Here's how they work.

After Netflix landed on our 2019 Dirty Dozen List, it made improvements to its parental control features. But there were still some significant problems with the solutions they rolled out.

Now, after being named to our 2020 Dirty Dozen List, Netflix has made an important safety update that we—and you as advocates—have been asking them to make!
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Netflix's The Witcher is Yet Another Example of Sexual Exploitation in Entertainment

Frustratingly, even as they are making solid improvements in regards to their parental control features, Netflix continues to promote and profit from sexually exploitative content via their Netflix Original programming.
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Protecting the Vulnerable and Fighting Sexual Exploitation at a Local Level

As the economic impact of COVID-19 grows, communities will be faced with increasing levels of vulnerable individuals who will be targets for sexual abuse and exploitation by predatory entities.
In the face of that, the Let My People Go Network is one example of an organization finding ways to equip local communities to care for the vulnerable in their midst by offering free consultations to church leaders across the country. In this way, they hope to be a part of mobilizing advocates on the ground to fight the scourge of exploitation through tangible care for the vulnerable both during and after the coronavirus pandemic.
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With gratitude,
Dawn Hawkins
Sr. Vice President and Executive Director
National Center on Sexual Exploitation






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