April 3, 2025

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MARCH ROUNDUP

See What We're Doing to Prevent Online Exploitation!

NEWLY RELEASED PODCAST!

In this episode of "Internet Safety with Donna Rice Hughes," Donna welcomes Tatiana Kotlyarenko, an international expert on violence against women, girls, and human trafficking to discuss the crisis of missing and potentially trafficked children at the southern U.S. border. Tatiana highlights the vulnerabilities these children face, the roles of smugglers and traffickers, and the urgent need for effective systems to protect them. Listen/Watch Here!

?Enough Is Enough® (EIE) is maximizing its public education and advocacy efforts to protect children and families on the internet. Here are just a few of EIE's recent highlights!

Federal Policy

S.C. Senator Lindsey Graham (center) met with Donna and Jack to discuss the Children's Internet Safety Presidential Pledge, making the internet safe for children and advancing new laws like the Earn It Act to prevent the online exploitation of children. 

Utah Senator Mike Lee (center) met with Donna and Jack Hughes to discuss strategies to prevent the online exploitation of children. Senator Lee is a leader in the battle to protect the innocence of kids online and sponsored The Screen Act, Protect Act, and App Store Accountability Act.

Michigan Congressman John Moolenaar met with Donna to discuss advancing the Children's Internet Safety Presidential Pledge recommendations with the Trump administration, which is backed by over 60 organizations and survivor leaders—urging the aggressive enforcement, funding, and expansion of laws against CSAM, trafficking, sextortion, and AI-generated abuse. 

South Carolina Statewide Initiative

South Carolina Lt. Governor Pamela Evette (2nd from right) met with members of the EIE team who thanked her for her leadership in getting laws passed in recent years like Gavin's law and many others. 

The EIE team also met with South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson and his staff to discuss EIE's statewide initiative to advance ways to keep S.C.'s children and families safer online. EIE is honored to support such an extraordinary team committed to prioritizing the prevention of child online exploitation!

South Carolina Speaker of the House Murrell Smith met with Donna, Jack Hughes and Dean Grigg who shared EIE efforts to advance legislative solutions to prevent the internet-enabled exploitation of children. Donna and Speaker Smith, a fellow Carolina Gamecock Alumni, posed next to the Gamecock mascot making the "Go Gamecocks" hand sign!

Photo credit: YouTube Screenshot = Energy Commerce Committee Hearing

Key bipartisan efforts to address online harms took place at both federal and state levels. The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee held a hearing on the dangers of NCII (non-consensual intimate images), deepfakes, and social media addiction, emphasizing the need to pass key bills like TAKE IT DOWN, KOSA, and the SCREEN Act. In North Dakota, the House Judiciary Committee reviewed an age verification bill (SB2380) to protect minors from harmful online content. Enough Is Enough® urges swift action on these critical measures to ensure a safer internet for children and families.

Donna met with and spoke before conservative businesses, political and NGO leaders during a Northern Virginia conference. Here she is pictured with close friends and longtime EIE supporters Nancy Schulze (former EIE Board member) and Alyse Lo Bianco.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT .... Important Episodes of "Internet Safety with Donna Rice Hughes" and More!

Donna sat down with Todd Minor, father of 12-year-old Matthew Minor, who tragically lost his life to the TikTok "choking challenge." Watch this vital discussion on the hidden dangers of social media, the crucial role of parental involvement, and ongoing advocacy efforts to protect children online.  View/Listen Here

Donna discusses the issue of male victims of sex trafficking with her guest, Jerome Elam, President and CEO of the Trafficking in America Task Force. Jerome shares his personal story as a survivor of child abuse, sex trafficking, and child pornography. View/Listen Here

Donna joined other experts on a Broadband Breakfast panel for a lively dialogue on youth safety online! Guests included: Stephen Balkam, Founder and CEO, Family Online Safety Institute; Michal Luria, Research Fellow, Center for Democracy & Technology; John Perrino, Senior Policy and Advocacy Expert, Internet Society; Rick Lane, CEO, IGGY Ventures LLC; and Drew Clark (moderator), CEO and Publisher, Broadband Breakfast

Tune in here to watch!

Social Media Safety Settings Quick Guide

If you haven't already set privacy and safety features on these platforms, we hope you will use the "Safety Settings for Popular Social Media Apps" Quick Guide to protect your loved ones from the online threats they may be exposed to including predators, traffickers, pornography, sextortion and cyberbullying, among others. 

Click here to download the Quick Guide!