WASHINGTON, D.C. – A little over a year ago, then-candidate Donald Trump signed “The Children’s Internet Safety Presidential Pledge,” a document authored by the anti-porn organization Enough Is Enough (EIE). In signing the pledge, Trump promised to (among other things) “uphold the rule of law by aggressively enforce existing federal laws to prevent the sexual exploitation of children online, including the federal obscenity laws.”

When Trump signed the pledge, EIE President and Chief Executive Officer Donna Rice Hughes hailed the event as indicative of the candidate’s “leadership and commitment to uphold the rule of law.”

“Over the last two decades America’s children have paid an unnecessarily steep price for the lax enforcement of federal obscenity laws,” Hughes said. “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. Strong leadership to protect vulnerable children from unscrupulous Internet [sic] pornographers, predators and traffickers must begin at the top. The need for aggressive enforcement of existing laws and adequate funding for Law Enforcement [sic] to do the job is long overdue.”

With the Trump administration well into its sixth month on the job, it seems reasonable to ask, “How’s that promised aggressive enforcement of federal obscenity law coming along?”

Much like Melania Trump’s promised campaign to combat cyberbullying, thus far the Trump administration’s pledge to crack down on porn has generated relatively little talk, let alone action.

Aside from Attorney General Jeff Sessions stating during his confirmation hearing federal obscenity laws “should be continued to be effectively and vigorously prosecuted in the cases that are appropriate,” the subject of obscenity prosecutions hasn’t been mentioned by any member of the administration.

Anti-porn groups, meanwhile, find themselves in about the same position they’ve been in under the past several presidential administrations: calling for enforcement of obscenity laws, scheduling summits to rally the anti-porn troops and authoring white papers filled with policy recommendations for the government to continue to ignore.

True, six months is not much time by which to judge whether Trump intends to act on his porn pledge, but those same six months have seen plenty of action on other fronts involving Trump’s various campaign promises, including a slew of executive orders stripping away environmental regulations, reversing Obama-era policies and (partially) imposing a controversial “travel ban” on people from select Muslim-majority countries.

Thus far, groups like EIE and the National Center On Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) seem to be showing patience with Trump, continuing their public pressure campaigns against businesses they claim are facilitating sexual exploitation without drawing attention to the lack of action on the part of the Trump administration with respect to the pledge and the vigorous enforcement of obscenity laws promised therein.

In a call for “12 days of action,” NCOSE intern Ben Forsgren noted the targets on the NCOSE’s Dirty Dozen list “are still facilitating sexual exploitation.”

“Comcast promised to implement changes, but insists on still selling extremely violent pornography,” Forsgren wrote, without specifying how or where Comcast is allegedly selling such violent porn. “EBSCO Information Services has made some efforts to clean up their K-12 school databases, but our kids are still being exposed to sexually explicit content in schools because of their faulty products. Twitter has disabled video and photos in the hashtags most often associated with pornography and prostitution on their site, but it continues to be a hub for selling sex.”

While there have been no federal obscenity indictments filed by the Trump Administration, I suspect we won’t see any blog posts from NCOSE calling attention to this fact — not for another several months, at least. After all, when the George W. Bush administration promised a similar crackdown on porn years ago, the anti-porn groups withheld criticism over the inaction for several years, and even then generally blamed the lack of action on the FBI and DOJ, rather than on Bush himself.

And, lest you think there has been no progress against sexual exploitation at all in recent months, the NCOSE would have you know the organization recently held “an important meeting” with the U.S. Dept. of Education, which you know is a very big deal because conservatives, especially Trump, see oh-so-much value in the Dept. of Education.

Naturally, though, maintaining all this amazing progress toward a more decent, less-pornified world isn’t free.

“There is so much opportunity and progress in the fight for human dignity,” NCOSE President and Chief Executive Officer Patrick Trueman wrote in a recent progress report. “Please join our cause by getting involved in the campaigns and events linked above, or by considering a donation to keep this momentum going.”

And if donating isn’t your thing, there’s always the NSOSE shop, where you can purchase a handsome #SEXPLOITATIONFREE mug for the rock-bottom price of $15.

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