As students head back to classrooms this fall, Enough Is Enough® wants parents to lean on its newly expanded InternetSafety101.org hub, a free resource covering social media, gaming, AI and online predators, to keep kids safer once the school year’s screens multiply.
The site is “designed to educate, empower, equip, and engage parents, caregivers and educators,” according to Enough Is Enough® in a press release, and it complements the organization’s Internet Safety 101 Academy curriculum with fresh guidance on cyberbullying, pornography, trafficking, cybersecurity and online exploitation.
Movieguide® has tracked Enough Is Enough’s advocacy for years, most recently in August, when President and CEO Donna Rice Hughes praised a $942 million verdict against Meta but warned the fight was far from over. “While these historic verdicts have been rendered against Meta, kids are still not safe online,” Hughes said.
That warning stretches well beyond one company. Between school-issued laptops, smartphones and gaming consoles, kids now carry the whole internet, algorithms, predators and all, in a backpack, and Enough Is Enough® built its new resources with that reality in mind.
The hub’s Safety Settings for Popular Social Media Apps Guide walks parents through locking down Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok. A companion Online Gaming Safety Settings Guide covers the platforms where predators increasingly troll for young players, and a third resource, the Smartphones for Children and Teens Guide, breaks down Apple and Android’s built-in parental controls.
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Parents short on time can start with the site’s Quick Guides, one-page primers on pornography, sextortion, cyberbullying and social media, or the Digital Smart Guides for a deeper dive. Families willing to sit down together can sign the Family Contract for Smartphones and Digital Devices, a household agreement meant to get everyone, kids included, on the same page about screen limits before problems start.
None of this is a new fight for Enough Is Enough®. Founded in 1994, the nonprofit calls itself “the pioneering leader on the front lines of efforts to prevent the Internet-enabled exploitation of children,” and it has spent three decades pushing corporations and lawmakers toward safer defaults for kids online, not just handing parents a checklist and walking away.
Its strategy rests on what the group calls shared responsibility between the public, corporate America, government and the faith community, and that faith prong is specific: age-appropriate programs addressing healing, restoration and abuse prevention. That’s one Movieguide® readers will recognize. Churches and Christian families have long stood on the front lines of teaching media discernment, and a national nonprofit naming faith communities as an equal partner, not an afterthought, in that fight is worth noting.
Hughes, an internet safety expert and Emmy-nominated producer, is available to speak with press about what parents can do this school year. Enough Is Enough® is encouraging families to work through the site’s guides now, before the first real-world lesson in cyberbullying or online predation shows up somewhere other than a classroom.
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