WASHINGTON—Families want support to protect their kids online. Today, we launched NetChoice’s Digital Safety Shield for America, offering various policy solutions to federal and state lawmakers that want to adopt meaningful and lawful solutions for families online.
THE PROBLEM: While parents and guardians try to adapt their families to emerging digital tools, they’ve consistently expressed to both technology services and lawmakers that they’d like help. However, some policymakers across the U.S. have responded with laws that violate the core, protected right of Americans to free expression. NetChoice has successfully halted most of these laws.
NETCHOICE’S SOLUTION: NetChoice’s Digital Safety Shield for America provides a policy plan for lawmakers on both the state and federal level. Working together, we can stop digital criminals, protect kids and empower parents online while upholding the rights of Americans.
“Families deserve real solutions that truly protect kids. That’s why NetChoice created the Digital Safety Shield for America—to give lawmakers constitutional tools that stop predators, empower parents and safeguard children online. Instead of unconstitutional, quick political fixes, this framework funds law enforcement, strengthens legal protections and equips parents and kids with the resources they need to thrive in the digital age,” said Amy Bos, NetChoice Director of State & Federal Affairs.
Bos continued: “Americans and our families should be able to embrace digital tools with confidence while knowing our rights will be upheld in online spaces. NetChoice’s Digital Safety Shield helps lawmakers strike that appropriate balance.”
NETCHOICE’S DIGITAL SAFETY SHIELD FOR AMERICA
1. Invest in child safety by funding law enforcement so they can successfully stop predators and cybercriminals targeting children online and put them behind bars.
2. Lock up more predators and cybercriminals who target children on digital services.
3. Implement digital education in the classroom so young Americans can learn to navigate the digital world safely and responsibly into adulthood.
4. Help parents learn about parental control tools and resources currently offered to them right now on digital services to help keep their kids safe.
5. Craft narrowly tailored, clearly defined rules that punish the bad actors who abuse digital tools like generative artificial intelligence to hurt children while respecting the protected rights of Americans.
6. Secure a federal data privacy framework to protect the data of ALL Americans and our families.
READ THE REPORT HERE.
Learn more at netchoice.org/DigitalSafetyShieldforAmerica.
Read exclusive coverage of the launch from Ben Brody at Punchbowl News HERE.
Please contact press@netchoice.org with inquiries.