Where Kids Play, Predators Prey: Protecting Kids Online
Donna Rice Hughes |
TEDxFargo
• July 2021
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40% of kids, grades 4 thru 8, regularly communicate with strangers online, opening the door to manipulative predators, traffickers and pornographers. Internet safety expert Donna Rice Hughes shares how past sexual exploitation in her life led to her pioneering Internet safety efforts, exposes the reasons for the exponential escalation of the online exploitation of children, paints a picture of a safer Internet that prioritizes childhood innocence and empowers parents to be the first line of defense.