Important News Update: On Monday, the Biden administration called on tech companies to step up protections for children and teens online, unveiling a set of recommendations urging platforms to limit features encouraging “excessive or problematic” social media use by youth. Enough Is Enough^® has been calling for efforts to "rein in big tech" for years and we are pleased to see the White House elevate this need!

Plus, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced he will bring the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and the Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 2.0) to the Senate floor this week for a procedural vote. Together, you have helped EIE and our coalition get the attention of the majority leader to bring these two major bipartisan child online safety bills front and center! More to come!

In today’s digital world, harmful and dangerous content is just a click or swipe away. And it’s free. Harmful content is defined as material that depicts sexually explicit nudity or sexual activity that an average adult applying contemporary community standards would find appeals to the prurient interest of minors. Common Sense Media revealed that 75% of teens had viewed pornography by age 17, with 5% of respondents saying they had viewed pornography online for the first time by age 10. A 2023 Bark study showed that 58% of responding tweens and 75% of teens encountered nudity or sexual content on social media sites.

For two decades, criminal enterprises in the business of producing and distributing hard-core pornography, illegal under federal obscenity law, have operated with impunity, distributing content depicting themes of teen rape, incest and torture because the Justice Department has failed to prosecute these cases since George W. Bush was president. Read FULL Article Here

Children are under assault by the very people whose job it is to protect them. Daily news stories reveal the disturbing reality that sexual predators have infiltrated the teaching, coaching and pastoral professions.

Stories like two Wisconsin teachers who attempted to seduce a student into a foursome, an Oregon teacher arrested for online sexual corruption of a child, a Virginia pastor accused of sexually violating children, a New Jersey teacher accused of having sex with a student, a Florida teacher arrested for sexting with a minor student, and an Alabama school district employee accused of sex with a minor, to name a few. Read FULL Article Here

Among Key Findings: 

• An average of 812 reports of sextortion per week were made to NCMEC in the last year of data analyzed - majority of reports expected to be financial sextortion.

• Instagram and Snapchat are the most common platforms used for sextortion; trends were observed regarding the emergence of additional end-to-end encrypted messaging apps to move victims to secondary platforms and the prevalence of Cash App and gift cards for methods of payment.

View EIE's "Sextortion 101" Quick Guide Here