Dear Friend, CREATING SAFER SPACES ONLINE Lots to celebrate already this year! Here’s a recap of 2022 progress towards our core objective of creating safe online spaces for children. Remember that all donations given online will be matched this month!
Thank you for helping us protect children online. NCOSE’s ongoing advocacy directly with TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and Google has led to numerous platform improvements for better child safety. Following our win with Google making all Chromebooks and products used in K-12 schools default to safety with built-in controls turned on automatically, we are now in communication with Apple seeking the same thing. With your help, we expect a victory on this front very soon! NCOSE is leading the charge in passing critical federal legislation! In late January, the EARN IT Act was reintroduced in Congress and passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee with a bipartisan and unanimous 22-0 vote. The bill is designed to confront the explosion of CSAM online by ending the immunity Big Tech and the internet pornography industry has exploited to turn a blind eye to and avoid responsibility for hosting such material. A companion bill has also been introduced in the House of Representatives. The EARN-IT Act has 20 sponsors in the Senate, 250 in the House of Representatives, and supporters from all 50 states. A letter of support led by NCOSE was signed by a diverse coalition of 256 U.S. organizations – including 62 survivor-led groups. While our corporate and legislative advocacy is seeing major progress, the momentum created by our lawsuits is pushing these corporations and Congress to make improvements more swiftly! Our NCOSE Law Center is co-counsel on a groundbreaking lawsuit against Twitter on behalf of two boys who were sex trafficked on the website. Our case is the first-ever lawsuit to move forward against Twitter and is now before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Our lawsuit has spurred similar suits against Snapchat, TikTok and others where these platforms knew that child exploitation was rampant. Thanks to your partnership, we are confident that the burden to protect kids online will no longer be the sole responsibility of overwhelmed parents! Big Tech and online sexual exploiters will soon be held accountable and will finally be required to help solve this problem. Please give $25, $50, or whatever you can today to continue this incredible momentum.
All online donations up to $50,000 will be matched! | 
