Kids Online Safety ACT (#KOSA) and the SHIELD ACT

In just 4 years, online child sexual exploitation reports have more than doubled. A bipartisan coalition of more than 30 attorney generals is now urging Congress to pass the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) this year to establish better safeguards for minors online. Fatalities and serious harm to minors continue as a result of specific practices facilitated by social media platforms. Yet, Big Tech companies have not taken responsibility and is hoping to sink this critical legislation. You can prevent that from happening now!

The SHIELD Act creates federal liability for sharing private, explicit images without consent, protecting victims and closing legal gaps around child exploitative material while allowing sharing of consensual and public interest content.

No Porn November

Reminder: EIE joins Fight the New Drug in its "No Porn November" campaign in asking porn consumers to consider giving up porn for 30 days with the support of research-backed resources, personal challenges, and a global community.

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"I would wake up in the morning and play games and go to school and come home and play games and watch porn ... that was my life." - Harrison

In case you missed It -- Harrison Haynes shares his personal story on "Internet Safety with Donna Rice Hughes" of being groomed by an older "friend" at age 12 while playing video games on Xbox, and ultimately "medicating" with -- and becoming addicted to -- pornographic videos and images he received. He shares his journey toward healing and digital intentionalism and discusses big tech’s inability to protect children online, as well as what parents need to know to protect them from harm.

Watch The Podcast Here

The Quiet Crisis: Uncovering the DOJs Failure to Tackle Obscenity

This article authored by Enough Is Enough delves into the puzzling and concerning lack of enforcement efforts by the Department of Justice regarding obscenity laws. Despite legal prohibitions on the distribution, transportation, sale, shipment, mailing, production with the intent to distribute or sell, and involvement in the business of selling or transferring obscene material, prosecutions under these laws have largely remained dormant since the administration of President George W. Bush.

Read the White Paper Here