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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump “immediately” signed a pledge to work to eliminate the sexual exploitation of children online should he be elected president, and the organizer says she still hopes Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton will reconsider and join him.
Donna Rice Hughes, the chief of Enough is Enough, a nonpartisan organization promoting the fight against online pornography and more, said, “Mr. Trump’s leadership and commitment to uphold the rule of law is demonstrated by his signing of the Children’s Internet Safety President Pledge.”
“Making the Internet safe for children and families is a critical step in making America safe again,” she said.
Her organization set up the pledge program and sent it to each of the presidential candidates.
It asks that, if elected, the candidates “pledge to defend the innocence and dignity of America’s children by enforcing the existing federal laws and advancing public policies designed to 1) prevent the sexual exploitation of children online and 2) to make the Internet safer for all.”
The group doesn’t endorse candidates, but does report on their responses.
“Secretary Hillary Clinton’s campaign declined to sign the pledge citing the campaign’s policy against signing pledges, stating that they did however, support the pledge’s goals. Gov. Gary Johnson’s campaign has not yet responded,” the group said.
“Governments can’t parent and parents can’t enforce the law. Parents alone cannot prevent Internet crimes against their children. Government must do its part and enforce all the laws on the books, not just some of them!
“Over the last two decades America’s children have paid an unnecessarily steep price for the lax enforcement of federal obscenity laws. Obscenity is not protected under the First Amendment, and the failure to enforce the law is harming children across the nation and around the world,” she said.
“Preventing the sexual exploitation of youth online requires a multi-faceted holistic strategy with a shared responsibility between the public, industry, and government. The need for aggressive enforcement of existing laws and adequate funding for law enforcement to do the job is long overdue. For nearly two decades, bipartisan government commissions, task forces, Internet safety groups, and researchers, who have recognized the significant risks associated with unfettered Internet access by youth, and have called upon the government and law enforcement to take aggressive action,” the campaign said.
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The campaign’s goals include an attorney general who will prosecute federal obscenity, child porn and sexual predation laws aggressively. It also calls for the needed tools and for consideration of a president commission to examine the problems caused by porn.
The state of Utah already has declared porn a public health crisis, the group said.
Among the organization’s findings: A 774 percent hike in the number of child pornography images and videos reviewed through the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s Child Victim Identification Program between 2005 and 2011.
“Most victims of child pornography are prepubescent with a growing trend toward depicting abuse of younger children, including infants,” the report said.
Further, the group reported, 83 percent of boys and 57 percent of girls have seen group sex online; 32 percent of boys and 18 percent of girls have viewed bestiality online.
The pledge, besides the appointment of an attorney general, the enforcement and the commission idea, also commits the signers to establish public-private partnerships with corporations to step up voluntary efforts to cut the “Internet-enabled sexual exploitation.”
Enough is Enough points out that Google searches for “teen porn” tripled from 2005 to 2013, and at that reporting point were at 500,000 a day.
And it reported PornHub said it streamed 87.8 billion views last year – 75 GB per second.
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