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Aug. 30, 2022 - Lionel Nation
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Digital Safety and Parental Autonomy

Digital predation is an area that's never covered by most in the tech safety realm as the subject matter proves too harrowing and disturbing. Lynn's Warriors is dedicated to educating parents, kids and caregivers on how to make the tech minefield safer and manageable. lynnswarriors.org

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The topic today is something that needs to be addressed and addressed repeatedly.
The topic today we are going to be discussing with my special guest, the inimitable, the ineffable Mrs. L, my bride, my betrothed, the subject of my adoration.
But the subject that we have to discuss today is about something very simple called either parental autonomy, parental primacy, and also a subject that is near and dear to your heart and our hearts, and that is digital safety.
And what parents need to know, especially as we are, I can't believe we're back to school.
Back to school.
Again.
First of all, my darling, welcome.
Good morning to you and good morning to everybody out there.
Let me make sure that we are coming across five by five.
If you hear us, that is the international signal for clarity and limpidity and auditory pellucidity.
Please let us know by you saying five.
First, we have a lot to talk about, and you, and I know this, I'm sure you know this, spend every waking moment talking about parental rights.
First of all, in a nutshell, what do you mean by parental autonomy, parental primacy?
What's the problem?
Well again, good morning everyone.
I am honored.
To be here today among all of you.
I think something we have to start with is each and every day in the United States, 2,300 children go missing.
Now, why aren't people talking about this?
Why isn't the media covering this?
You certainly do.
I certainly do.
Why aren't people knowing about this?
Why aren't people out in the streets screaming about this?
Urging, demanding answers from our elected representatives.
Let's start there.
So there's no...
I'm jumping around a little bit, but there's no focus on what is truly important.
Now, I think we all know what's going on in the school systems across the United States, especially in the last year.
Things have been speeding up K-12.
What are they?
In case we don't know.
Well, I want to start with, I did a little research, and all of a sudden, every day, we have everything from these woke teachers, for lack of a better word.
I don't like saying woke teachers, but whatever, whoever these teachers are, where did they come from?
Librarians, administrators, school boards, principals, and it seems to run the gamut, including, and I want everybody to be aware of this, it's not just the public school system.
I am getting reports and working with parents and educators on the sly who tell me a lot of things, grandparents, concerned citizens.
It's also in private schools, parochial schools, charter schools.
So no one is exempt here.
We have to keep an eye on everything.
So I went back to say, well, how did this all happen?
That every day I'm being deluged with information and sources and reading things.
It started in about 2015 when I went back and did a little research on all of this.
Not a little.
I actually did a lot of research on this.
And it's been slowly creeping in.
And where Johnny can't read, write, do arithmetic at all.
And our kids, we have so many studies, and I won't bore you with all of that.
Especially coming out of COVID, the pandemic, which we had a youth mental health crisis prior to COVID escalating.
Nobody talked about.
When I say nobody, I'm talking about government, media.
Parents certainly weren't aware of it.
And coming out of that isolation, coming out of that worldwide pandemic, call it what you want, that fright, that unknown.
Nobody had answers.
Kids look to adults, believe it or not.
Even if they don't act like it for answers, there were no answers.
Things changed every day.
This infant, wear a mask, don't wear a mask.
You know, you can't get together in a group.
You've got to be six feet apart.
The kids are a wreck and a mess.
And when I say kids, I'm talking about, I'll say 30 and under.
Today...
30 years old?
Well, you know...
No, no, you're...
No, technically, you know, we know 18, 21, we know all this, 18, okay?
No, I'm with you on that.
But all of these studies and groups I work with and coalitions, it's 30 and under.
And depression is up 135% in the last year.
Anxiety, we have one in four.
It's 25%, again, 30 and under, saying they can't function.
Not just a little, I'm scared, I'm having a bad day, or any of that kind of stuff.
Can't function.
Can't get out of bed.
Don't know who I am.
Don't know what I'm doing.
Don't know where I'm going.
These should be the topics that are being addressed by everybody, and including our school systems.
You know, we have all this mandatory forced sex stuff with our kids, right?
Gender.
But we don't have K-12 digital safety plans that everybody should be taught.
We don't have K-12 human trafficking education, which the majority is taking place fueled by the Internet.
Those are the priorities.
And I want to remind everybody, parental autonomy, very simply, you are in charge of your child.
It is the law.
And as a lawyer, you can explain that a little better.
The thing that is going on now...
Is that unless, part of parental autonomy, unless your child is being harmed somehow, you know, you're starving the child or beating the child, then somebody can come in and take that child.
So now, certain people are using that to get in there with this whole gender argument.
I'll let you speak about that in a moment.
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Alright.
Let's go back with this.
My guest, of course, is the lovely and talented Mrs. L. Let's talk about something.
I want to get down to brass tacks.
And please forgive me ahead of time if I seem to interrupt.
If I'm changing the subject, this is the way I am.
And that's what I love about you.
We are roughly, I'm a little older than you, we are roughly from the same generation.
Not much.
And when we were kids, our parents were told to watch out for rock and roll, and long-haired music, and maybe Playboy magazine, or X-rated...
Lyrics.
And it was kind of mild and tame by comparison.
All of a sudden, all of us changed by virtue of this wonderful thing, the phone.
This has been...
I'm not going to be one of these Luddites.
It's wonderful.
From GPS to...
I wouldn't want to go back.
I don't know how we ever lived without the Internet.
I agree.
But there's a sense of innocuous that people have towards this.
People believe that this is something that is safe.
Everybody's got one.
Everybody has this.
And kids have phones, and it's good because their friends have phones.
And also it's very good for a kid to be able to call.
We had in our day a quarter or a dime even.
But we did it.
We made it.
We made it, but I think we're much better off with this.
Now, explain, first of all, there is a parent watching and they're saying, I don't know what you're talking about.
What kind of threat?
If my child is not going and meeting people or people aren't coming to our homes or my child is not being snatched off the street from a guy in a white van, what type of predation?
Does the phone or the internet and gaming, streaming, what kind of threat does that pose?
Having any of these devices and giving them to your children, and I will assume you pay for them, you pay for the internet, is like opening up your front door and welcoming in the world a bunch of strangers.
And I know none of you would ever do that.
You would never hold your phone up in a supermarket parking lot and say, Hey, here's my 12-year-old daughter in her bathing suit.
Come look at this.
I know none of you would ever do that.
*Rainful sound*
Let's go over a couple of facts.
But they do do this.
Well, let me just explain something.
So, having said that right now, as of the last few weeks, we know that 85% And I don't make up anything.
This is all vetted.
These are all based on facts and studies.
85% of parents use all of these devices, phones, Chromebooks, laptops, gaming consoles, whatever, use these as a babysitter.
They're admitting it 85%.
So if they're admitting it across the board in the United States, it's higher, right?
Because we don't have true stats.
We know 68% They have no clue or idea.
They hand over the device.
They buy it.
They give it to the child.
They don't know what the kids are doing.
They've never talked about it.
They've never discussed anything about safety precautions.
That's 68%.
We also know one in four children, remember, it's probably higher, one in four children are approached online.
And what the child thinks is an adult with sexual images, conversation, One in four, okay?
Now, of those one in four approached online, actually 25% of them will go out in real time and meet this stranger.
Now, think about that.
If parents, caregivers, if you knew this information, you would take action.
It is up to us to become warriors.
That is why I formed the Warriors, to educate, to raise awareness and educate.
Boots on the ground, grassroots level, because we have a government that is not helping.
I'll leave it at that.
That's for another program.
We have big tech ruling the roost.
Not helping.
And it's a runaway train.
So it's up to us.
It's up to us to intervene, to prevent new victims, to step in, to know what's going on.
And to take action.
We can no longer count on schools.
It used to be you drop your child off.
It was a safe place for seven, eight hours, right?
No longer the case.
We have to do it.
It's 2022.
I am begging all of you to get basic facts.
If you are going to give your child a device, and I can't tell you what age to give your children a phone.
You know, there's great phones.
Gab is one of them.
Our great partner, Bark, coming out.
They have child phones.
Now, Gab is not the...
Online, Twitter-esque type of thing.
No, no, no.
It's called Gab Wireless.
Okay.
I just want to give some resources, because these are things you don't hear about.
Let me stop right there, just because you know more of this.
Number one, we're not going to mention names.
My blood boils.
Boils.
When I see people that we know, for reasons I will not, especially people that we know, either in the industry, in media, in politics, or...
Who are well known within their communities.
Constantly taking pictures of their children.
One in particular, I'm not going to mention, but you know who I'm talking about.
She went, this beautiful little girl, went to a school, private school.
She's in her cute little uniform.
With her cute little book bag, with her name, this is so-and-so.
This is Sarah.
But the name of this school, and anybody watching knows that Sarah, I'm just picking this name out, has a brother named, whatever, Moondog.
And Moondog, they have a dog named Puppy.
And Puppy just went to the doctor.
And Moondog lost his tooth.
And her teacher's name is this.
And everything you can imagine.
You know about that child.
So if anybody ever meets, and this is the oldest trick in the book, somebody drives by and says, listen, your mom can't pick you up.
Hey, aren't you Sarah?
Your brother's moondog, don't you?
I understand.
You're in Mrs. Cleaver's class, right?
I understand you lost a tooth.
Come on.
But parents swear to me that their child would never do that.
But we know.
And they go off with this person.
And that their Facebook...
Is for friends.
And we see pictures of them bathing.
I don't understand.
Kids, I don't want to go into detail.
If your child potty trains, first of all, your child's going to have to live the rest of their life without having their toilet training antics chronicled by you because people look at children as though they're chattel.
To see pictures of them in the backyard.
Swimming, sometimes nude.
I do not understand.
And they know what she does.
They know.
And there's something, this barrier, blood-brain barrier.
This is what I'm not understanding.
I don't get it.
With this basic education of what is going on.
Because the predators are winning.
And we have to get, there are two things, and this is going to sound very simple.
I'm not kidding right now.
We have to get back with communicating directly with our children, our grandchildren.
We have to talk to them.
I have a new newsletter going out tomorrow, every Wednesday.
We have Lynn's Warriors newsletter.
And you can go to the website, lynnswarriors.org, and sign up for that.
And it's about creating a family digital partnership.
You've got to sit down with the kids.
I don't care if they're in fifth grade.
I don't care if they're in high school or college.
And you've got to talk to them about, we're going to leverage the internet for good because it's not going away.
It's only expanding into the metaverses now, but we'll leave that for later on.
You've got to come up with a family plan of safety.
I am urging all of you, this is the number one crime.
It is not drugs.
It is all forms of human trafficking.
Sex trafficking.
We have made it so easy with all of this online, putting it all out there.
All the predators have to do.
Our children are vulnerable anyway.
Kids are vulnerable no matter what.
Have become so vulnerable and full of this anxiety everybody's talking about.
Every day somebody comes to me.
They have anxiety.
Their child has anxiety.
My grandchild, what do I do?
We have to sit.
And come up with these family plans.
I am not kidding.
And almost have a contract.
Hang it on the refrigerator.
Sounds very kind of corny.
Have to do it.
We have to get back to basics.
We also, there was a big uptick in, this is becoming so normalized, all of this children predation, children as objects.
Let's face it, children are the currency.
That's what I always say.
Children are the future adults.
Children's minds are being molded right now with all kinds of thoughts.
You know, we have to teach them.
I'm noticing.
For instance, there was a story that came out of Australia.
The mother went in the frozen foods, you know, in the supermarket.
She had the baby in the front of the cart.
Turned her back to go in and take something out.
The guy walks right up and takes the baby and walks away with the baby.
We have another little girl report it.
On her front lawn, six years old, bringing out the garbage for her mom.
Some stranger walked up, tried to grab her.
We also have to teach the kids.
You know what you have to do?
You have to kick, you have to scream, and you have to run away.
And I am not kidding.
Because this normalization that has seeped into society so, so quickly, right?
On every level.
From the entertainment landscape, the educational landscape, the medical landscape.
We have to get in there and take care of our kids because nobody else is doing it for us.
We have to do it.
Now, let's talk about something.
You have on Lens Warriors, and by the way, here is the website for that.
Chris McKenna, so many of the great people have devices that parents may not know about being able to affect browsers and how to make a phone, in essence, free from this.
Explain that.
We have to utilize all of the resources available.
And there are a lot of great free resources.
We try at the Warriors always to promote free and easy.
A couple of the greatest ones we're partnered with.
Again, Gab Wireless.
This is a phone where your kids can have only texting and calling you.
Right?
There's no internet.
Okay?
We also have Bark.
Great company.
B-A-R-K.us is their website.
They're coming out with a phone.
So there are options.
Now, we've got some companies, organizations, ProtectYoungEyes.com.
I always promote our good friend Chris McKenna.
He does great tech information, little blogs to make you aware of what's breaking in the news about the different platforms.
For instance, Instagram recently announced parental controls and updates.
Well, I am here to say to you, we will take any little positive information that's good, but there is not enough on any platform, parental controls, enough that is going to make a difference right now.
Because remember, it's as easy as you've got to follow the money.
All of this is making everybody a lot of money.
I suggest protectyoungeyes.com.
Go.
Look at this tech information.
Bark.us.
Everybody's busy, right?
This is a monitoring service, in addition to a lot of great blogs and information about, again, what's going on with kids that you can sign up for.
You can connect your phone to their phone.
You will be alerted if something comes, an image, a text, anything.
We also have to talk about, always, DefendYoungMinds.com.
Kids are being deluged.
They have easy access to porn.
And if you don't think, and this is not, you know, I'm beyond saying this is about being a prude or this is what's happening.
Most 11-year-olds have already seen hardcore porn.
A lot of this porn today, the demand is for children.
Children.
We're not talking adults.
In these videos.
In this porn.
That is the biggest money.
The kids have seen it.
So the kids, you've got to start talking age appropriately.
DefendYoungMinds.com.
And it's...
It's dark.
It's overwhelming.
A lot of parents say it's embarrassing.
We can't be embarrassed anymore.
We have to confront this.
We have to be a warrior.
We have to get on it.
So go to DefendYoungMinds.com because there are suggested conversations, suggested questions, a couple of great picture books for the younger kids.
You have to start early, right?
You have to start as early as three years old, age appropriately with talking and some of these very simple safety features because Every day, I feel like I'm being hit over the head with a hammer.
What is breaking?
I will say to myself, I can't believe it.
And I could sit 24 hours a day and just post.
This one's involved in sex trafficking.
This one is involved with a minor.
These are the headlines.
These are headlines that I could just sit and post on Twitter or Facebook, wherever.
Of course we can't.
We're busy people.
I keep saying normalized because I am in shock at what is being normalized with our kids.
In the meantime, they can't hold the pencil.
They can't throw a ball.
They can't speak clearly.
They don't make eye contact.
They're hiding in their bedrooms.
One other tip, do not allow devices in the bedrooms.
I know kids will scream, the teens.
In the bathroom.
And getting to that, also the bathroom.
Right now...
There are several lawsuits percolating with, for instance, Twitter.
We have something happening right now.
At the time, we're 13 years old, a couple of years ago.
And they, you know, are trying to get these images down.
And nobody's listening.
Let me ask you a question.
Stop for one second.
This is important.
When we talk to parents, and you do, they will sometimes say, ah, ah, ah.
What does this do to you on a regular basis?
When you're immersed, you get up in the morning, all day long, your alerts, by the way, you're at, I'll give you the Twitter, what does this do to you, in terms of your psyche, your view of humankind, to just see how our most vulnerable are being victimized daily, internationally?
Well, that is a big question.
Fortunately for me, all of this depravity and abuse of our most precious and our most vulnerable makes me work harder.
Makes me want to fight more.
As you know, I do a lot behind the scenes with all of this.
Makes me just want to, of course, obviously, stop.
Stop, right?
Because nobody is realizing we can go into this is part of a national security threat.
Do you know, for instance, the United States, we have here the largest percentage of URLs for all of this child predation in the world.
I don't even know how to answer that question because all I want to do, the goal of the warriors, if we help, educate, Make progress with one person, one child a day.
We have done our jobs because this is overwhelming.
This filters into...
There is no race or class for this.
We have kids trafficked that are...
And remember, trafficking is an image that travels online.
That is a form of human trafficking.
An image.
It's not necessarily you're in a car, you're brought somewhere.
Of course, that's happening too.
It is online.
And how easy is that for all of these predators sitting back?
What happens, well let me ask you, what type of attention has been given to African American children, people of color?
Is that covered as much, do you think, in terms of the recorded predation?
Absolutely not.
And I wish more people...
We'd be talking about all of our talk in recent years about the black community.
Yet, children in sex trafficking, over 60% are girls and boys of color.
So shouldn't that be addressed?
Why is it every day, and I urge all of you, if you go to Lynn's Warriors on Twitter, on Facebook, I share a picture of a child, a photo of a child, every day missing.
This is a good sharing of a child's photo.
Use your platforms for good and share that photo because kids are found that way.
So many children of color, and boys are the forgotten ones.
Nobody's focused on boys.
We don't talk about it at all, right?
Why aren't people stepping up and putting a focus on our children of color?
All of our children, these are not throwaway children.
You have to realize, we're talking to concerned parents or grandparents or citizens.
We have to focus on a lot of these kids, you know, runaways.
It can be sex trafficking.
It can be vulnerable homes, you know, family situations, runaways, all of that stuff.
We have to do better by our children.
I'm not understanding.
These are our precious children.
Why are we treating our children?
I want to just say something before I forget.
I am tired of just reaction.
I don't care if it's sex trafficking, if it's politics, if it's drag queens, whatever's going on.
We need action.
We need take actions.
And while you're all...
Everybody's distracted with all of that other nonsense in the mainstream media or whatever's happening online, which is truly internet addictions.
We know.
That's true.
We have kids spending up to 12, 13 hours a day.
The average is about 9 hours a day.
So can you imagine schooling, sleeping, and 9 hours on the internet?
So what I want to say is, why aren't we focused on this one subject matter?
As you know, I have gone to many political elected, well, because I never give up, because that's it, to talk to them about these issues.
Get this on your platform.
Elected are those who want to run for office.
And I am overall met with blank stares.
I am overall met with...
Going through their phone.
Scrolling, I was going to say scrolling through a phone or turning...
You know, around in the chair to go on their laptop to answer an email.
I am told, Lynn, that doesn't happen in the United States.
We only have sex trafficking because of the people coming over the border.
These are the people that are supposed to be representing us.
Without mentioning names.
I'm not mentioning names.
This was a candidate for a very...
Because I don't want this fool to even get near winning.
I'd rather, I swear to you, I don't know what bothers me, but there's one person who said, no, that's not here.
Trafficking is from other countries.
There are people, we don't even want to get into it, parents in this country who sell their own kids in this country.
But that's, I don't want to get too dark.
That's a big business, the familial trafficking.
But what I want to say is, so again, this is where we're at.
We have to acknowledge it.
We have to know what's going on.
We have to take action.
We have to take care of our own children.
You know, for instance, with the schools, back to school time, a lot of kids are back already here in New York.
We go back after Labor Day, after next week.
You have to know.
You have to be involved.
You have to take the time.
I don't care.
You have to know who are the teachers.
What is the curriculum?
Not everybody has the luxury of homeschooling.
Not everybody can afford private schools, which, again, I pointed out earlier.
These agendas are happening in all schools across the board.
It is a moneymaker.
You have to be part of...
Go to your school board meetings.
Know who's on that school board.
You have to take an active role.
You have that parental autonomy to opt out of a class you don't like.
Your child can opt out.
You can monitor a class.
You have to know these things.
The only way we can dig in on this, knowing what's happening, and take action at this community level.
And that is why this is what I teach every single day.
This is what we have to do.
Now, on the flip side of that, we do have in Congress a couple of very important bills that are bipartisan, because I want everybody to realize children belongs to no political agenda, at least.
That's how it should be, right?
These bills, for instance, we have the Kids Online Safety Act.
We are waiting for Congress to reconvene to vote on this.
If we can get this bill passed, and I won't go into all the particulars about everything, we know a couple of other bills we have to protect children, okay?
Then it will snowball and we'll get these other bills passed.
So Congress will reconvene in a couple of weeks.
This bill is sitting there waiting to go from what I hear to vote rather quickly.
Again, it's a bipartisan bill.
This is a bill, for instance, that when they build these devices, instead of waiting for parents with Apple with 31 steps to put on a safety feature that the kids can undo anyway, build these safety features in.
Make it easy for the consumer.
That's one of the things, Kids Online Safety Act.
But that being said, We need everybody.
We can't do this alone.
We need you to go to, for instance, Senate.gov.
Find out who's your senator, if you don't know.
Senators.
And write to them.
The email's there.
If you're brave enough, phone call, leave a message.
They keep records.
And say, I urge you to vote for Kids Online Safety Act, KOSA.
Because this is, I am not kidding, such an important step.
That is right in front of us in the next few weeks.
Why is it sometimes better to call than to email?
Well, calling, you know, usually calling.
Lots of times you'll get a legislative aide on the phone.
They keep records on everything.
Everything.
You might think they don't.
If they get ten messages about the same subject, they must answer to that.
Okay?
So, calling.
All of it's best.
Calling, leaving the message, talking to somebody.
Very simple.
You don't go on and on and on.
Nobody has time for that.
Kids Online Safety Act.
Urging Senator so-and-so, vote.
Vote.
We have to do this.
And this is the part I don't get.
We're giving you the information.
We're telling you how to protect kids, grandkids.
Why aren't more people jumping on board?
This is the part I don't understand.
A couple of things.
In addition, let's talk about something which I think is if people knew about this, it would astound you.
I was surprised.
Sextortion.
Huge.
And among boys, the predators are targeting the boys.
How does that work?
Why are predators targeting boys?
Explain it first.
First of all, sextortion is simply getting somebody To give you an image over the internet, sexual in nature.
And then extorting them for money or extorting them that you will hurt them, extorting them that you will send it to your school, your parents.
This is why we need to inoculate the kids.
Because the kids are so easily handing over to strangers.
Sexual images.
They're being directed.
Go in the bathroom, do this, do that.
But kids are thinking that it's somebody their age.
They think it's a girl.
That is why education, they're thinking they're with a girl or a boy.
A lot of them.
And it's coming to light because of this normalization of the child-adult.
That the kids know it's an adult.
And they're still doing it.
Okay?
What happens then?
This aftermath we have seen over and over.
Wrecks a child.
Wrecks a family.
Wrecks.
Because remember, I don't care.
Kids tell me every day, I deleted it.
You know, Snapchat, I deleted it.
No, no, no.
It's caught in that cloud.
It's there forever.
You are re-victimized, re-traumatized the rest of your life.
Now just think about that.
Let's take it as far as with all of that victimization, trauma.
Push that into our whole health, medical.
The years, the costs that filters down to each and every one of us with our taxes and how this affects everybody.
Why aren't the kids listening more?
Why are the kids, you know, not controlling more when we're talking about this?
We are privately going into when schools will have us to talk about it.
Every single child will raise their hand.
When you say, say 5th, 6th graders, we go in, have you been approached by an adult?
I would say about 75% raise their hands.
Have you been approached asking for an image by what you think is another child?
100% of the hands go up.
We have to get in there.
Sextortion.
And, I'm sorry, not to...
I know for a fact, we have a friend of ours who's a school teacher.
Now, it's tough enough for kids to go through the usual problems and stigma and confusion about schools.
The number of kids who have to, all of a sudden, they're seeking transfers because that picture that they sent either because maybe to another boyfriend...
We also have people who are using sextortion by virtue of boyfriends and ex-boyfriends.
Kids who are being lulled.
Remember, kids don't have judgment centers like we do in their brains.
They don't have the ability to weigh the right, the wrong, the pros, the cons.
But then these kids right now who are being affected who want to leave and hurt themselves and absent themselves.
And as you know, going through school is tough enough with the way you look or the way you dress or the way it is.
Add to it.
And this happens all the time.
All the time.
Am I correct?
I mean, all the time.
Recently, I did a great video on the Linz Warriors YouTube channel, and I'm urging you all, remember, information, knowledge, that is the key to everything, with a newish organization, Nurses United Against Human Trafficking.
And our good friends, Tammy Toni Butler, nurse, and Dr. Fran Bononeri.
And Dr. Fran was telling me, That the kids have become so accustomed to the mask that, and we're talking middle school and high school kids, they don't want now, they're so vulnerable, they don't want people to see their faces, right?
They don't want to take those masks off.
They're hiding, we have kids that don't want to go to school because they don't want to take the mask off.
What?
They're hiding behind because they feel so vulnerable.
They feel ugly.
They don't want people to see their faces.
They're so vulnerable.
You know, we need this overall, I'm going to say it like a broken record, this digital safety every school and college campuses as well.
You know, it's funny because I won't use names.
I'll throw this in.
An acquaintance, somebody I work with.
Who's at Berkeley, okay?
Technology, information specialist.
Cannot believe, and has testified many, many times for Congress and safety features and filters and what's happening with kids.
The medical community has been there in front of Congress.
We have the information.
We know what happens.
Can't believe what's going on with children.
Nobody can believe it.
And I'm hearing this constantly.
So we have to change that.
I'm tired of the band-aid, right?
I'm tired of talking about it.
We need to be proactive.
We also need, not only, you have to have your entire family involved.
You know, all the children.
Everybody's got to be on the same page.
Grandparents, aunts, uncles.
You have to make this effort.
Everybody has to know what's going on.
Because every day, I'm tired of hearing, in the middle of New York City, Wouldn't happen to my child.
My child knows better.
I didn't know that.
You need to know this.
You need to know, again, the children are the currency.
There is a war on for our children, and it is up to us.
We have a duty to take care of our kids.
And only a small percentage, I will say, are doing what I'm preaching.
And this is not to judge everybody.
We have grown up in a digital, these kids' digital world.
Everybody's overwhelmed.
But let's leverage it for good.
And it can be done.
And we have to have these digital family partnerships where everybody's on the same page.
The kids have to be able to say, look what somebody just sent me.
And go to the parents.
Yes.
Open communication.
I know it sounds, you know, so simple.
We have to have it.
Because I'm telling you, the predators...
Are winning, and there's no stopping them.
And the amounts of money being made, that is always it.
Follow the money.
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Now, let me ask you something.
You mentioned something before, and this might be the toughest thing.
And people always suggest maybe an example.
And this has always worked, and I've seen this work before.
You should always ask your kids, Hey, listen, sit down for a second.
Let me see your phone.
What?
Give me your phone.
Give me my phone.
That's my phone.
No, it's my phone.
I pay for this.
Sounds stupid?
It's about jurisdiction.
How many kids think somehow...
This is mine.
Like, this is reading your diary.
Remember that when you were, kids had diaries?
Well, in defense of children, remember what I just told you, that 85% of parents are reporting they use it as a babysitter.
Okay.
So they hand it to the child, so the child thinks, okay, they're not looking, they're not interested, they're not watching.
This is mine.
So we've got to retrain parents.
And kids about all of this.
We've got to talk more about those routers in your homes, how you can control content.
Explain that.
Again, if you go to protectyoungeyes.com, you will see all about the Griffin router and how you can split.
What information, I don't want to be too technical, is going to, for instance, your child's devices, what can be going to your device, how you can be 100 miles away, turn off.
You know, the internet from outside of your home.
Yeah.
There are all of these, but I want to focus on, again, parents.
You cannot just hand these devices over and do nothing.
You have this duty to protect.
Now, just for one second, now this is a little bit, because we use the word trafficking.
May I say something, if you don't mind, legally about this word?
This word trafficking, I don't...
But that's what it's called.
I understand it.
Drug trafficking.
People think, I'm not trafficking anything.
I just, if you possess drugs in a certain amount, it's called trafficking.
It's the idea that we are presuming that this is more than just mere possession.
When you talk about, how are you trafficking in a kid who's at home, who sends a picture, because the item, the commerce, is...
The picture that is a subject of sextortion.
Here's something that we're seeing all the time, and I frankly, we don't know what to do.
Labor trafficking.
We see people all the time standing out in highways, West Side Highway, selling.
They look Central American, they look Hispanic, Latino.
Well, you can't tell.
They have hoodies, masks.
One had a baby on her back walking between cars selling water and...
Papaya or pieces?
Labor trafficking?
Work trafficking?
Baking?
Nobody's addressing any of these issues.
There might be, you might say there's a lot of chatter about it.
You might see there are different people and websites and, you know, talking about whatever I have found.
This is only my experience.
You will attest to I have a true passion for helping families and children.
I have never been trafficked.
I'm not a victim of it.
But it was horrendous when I learned a couple of years ago what is going on in the United States of America with our children, with our families.
And then I became a warrior to educate others at this point in my life, to help others.
And that is my mission, okay?
Why we are allowing I don't care if these women came from other countries.
Why we're allowing our kids in the third grade to go to school and be greeted with things by teachers, you know, do you feel like a girl or a boy today?
And I'll just leave that for now.
Why we're allowing the media to cover these horrendous drag shows.
Block it out.
Don't give it attention.
People showed more interest.
In stopping critical race theory as an example.
But that's one thing.
Let's also talk about something.
How many cases do we know of where kids during COVID, during this remote learning, remote learning, they just disappeared?
Never came back to school again?
They just never...
Whatever happened to Tommy?
Whatever happened to Maria?
Gone.
Nobody's asking.
And this is, again, we have to...
We have to do better as the adults, obviously.
We have to.
You know, the kids do watch by example, okay?
They want direction.
I don't care how much that teen yells at you or mouths off, right?
Look at TikTok.
There's a crime scene.
I'm going to leave it at that.
I've been talking about that for five years.
Okay, so now there's some stuff about TikTok.
Crime scene.
But when the kids see the adults doing dances and singing and this and that, they're going to replicate that.
So if we don't take control and be an example, I can't imagine what it will be five years from now.
I can't imagine we're in the metaverses.
It is plural.
Nobody realizes it.
Billions is being spent by big tech on all of that.
Kids will never leave their homes.
They're not going to have jobs.
They're going to work through the metaverses.
We'll do that in another program.
We have to, right now, in 2022, start getting a handle and a hold of this.
It is a national crisis.
It's an emergency.
And remember, no one is exempt.
It doesn't belong to any class, any race, every type of child.
We have had kids that are...
Police officers as moms and dads, pastors, ministers, rabbis.
We have had everything you can imagine.
Every child is being affected.
We have to right now step in and become truly warriors.
This amazed me.
We have a friend who is a teacher.
And because kids are not used to holding things and playing ball and...
Feeling and spatial awareness and parietal lobe development.
There's stuff that we kind of took for granted.
They're unable to handle pencils and pens.
And I saw a picture of a child.
Remember the Palmer method?
There are kids who don't.
You will hand them a child.
They don't.
It's like they broke the fingers of their hands.
Then...
Because kids watch videos and they have tablets and iPods and this and that, whatever.
Because the information is thrown at them, they don't learn to track.
So they can't read.
So they can't hold pencils.
They can't write.
They can't read.
And this is not...
Nobody's saying throw the phones away.
But this is a result of something which I'll bet you most people don't know about.
And also the children and all of us have such choices, right?
You see something on a phone, you don't like it, you swipe.
Right?
You swipe, you swipe, you swipe.
Kids can't concentrate.
Kids can't focus.
I want everybody to understand what a dire situation this is, because I work on the New York City local level, on the state level, on the federal level, with all of these issues.
We cannot wait for laws to be enforced, because there are some laws already.
Nothing's getting enforced these days, pretty much, and we're creating new laws, new bills to deal with things, but we cannot wait.
This is an emergency situation with our children, and it's got to start.
The one thing is, and we also don't want to, it's not us versus them with the kids.
We've got to, again, create this, you know, kids think of, right, the adults, the parents.
You know, pointing their finger or, no, that's bad.
With all of this, no.
We have to come together, logically, sit down, have a family meeting.
But I'm so concerned, again, because this is a group of concerned citizens, I know, here at Lionel Nation.
What about all those kids that have nobody protecting them, have nobody to fight for them?
We have to look out for all the kids in our communities.
And so many kids are just, like you pointed out, after COVID, there have been reports in New York City that up to 40% of children, 40%, never returned to the public school system.
Gone.
That's almost half the kids.
Where are the kids?
Why is, nobody's talking about it.
What's going on here?
So, we have to look out, at least we believe at the Warriors, all children are precious children, and not allow.
What is going on?
We have to stand up to this.
I don't care if it's sharing a photo of a missing child on one of your platforms.
I don't care if it's making that call.
Senate.gov, Support Kids Online Safety Act.
Everybody can do a little something, and we must.
One of the things which we always talk about inoculating, using the notion of immunization, inoculate your kids, always fool them.
But make it sound clever.
For example, so little Michaela, did you hear the story the other day of what happened?
What do you mean?
This little girl, kind of your age, make this up, was at home.
She was talking to somebody and she thought she was talking to a friend.
And this person told her to take a picture of herself.
Nude or clothes, whatever it is.
And that person turned out to be an adult.
And do you know what happened?
That photo.
Went all over the world.
And do you know that person was so embarrassed that they had to leave their school?
Whatever you want to do.
However you want to do it.
Age appropriate.
You have to talk about that.
Age appropriate.
So that you enlist them.
You can say, now listen.
As our partners.
I want you to be on the lookout.
If you see something like this, let me know.
Because we've got to protect other kids out there.
And kids are born cops.
They love to rat people out.
And use it.
Outsmart them.
If you see this, let me know because we've got to help these kids because sometimes there are people there who will do this.
And as you're saying this, look at her eyes.
The eyes will always dart.
But if you see that, oh my God, that's another way to see what's going on.
Also, very quickly, and I have to throw this in there.
If you don't tell your children you love them, At least 10, 20, 30 times a day to the point where you're thinking, this is ridiculous.
The number of people that we know who say, I don't remember my parents ever saying they love me.
I don't remember.
You've got to ask your kids, what if somebody said to you, your parents don't love you.
What would you say?
That's crazy.
Better believe that's crazy.
I don't know what that, how...
People have missed how important that word is.
But that's how the predators are sneaking in online to the vulnerable kids who complain online about their parents and things like that.
I also want to point out that you can do everything right.
Take all of these.
Take actions.
But your child has friends.
They're around others.
We'll be showing them things on their phones.
We'll be, you know, kids want to be part of the group.
They want to fit in.
That is why it is so important at home.
This is a new mindset that we have to face here in America to inoculate them against this predation.
I want to tell everybody, no matter what platform you're on or your children, the predators are there on every single platform.
You must know and talk to the kids.
What games are you on?
Is it your friends?
Strangers?
We have to stop this behavior.
Show me how good you are.
Let me see this.
Everybody has to set friends and family only for privacy features.
Again, I suggest it's easy.
ProtectYoungEyes.com I get nothing from this.
It's a wonderful resource that I want everybody to utilize.
Free information to protect you and the devices.
You've got to teach the kids, though, what is wrong.
And the predators are there, and that image remains forever.
We can't have our children killing themselves over images online.
We have kids in emergency rooms showing up.
Suicide, suicide ideation, 11 years old and younger, 40%.
That is the number.
40% of the kids showing up in emergency rooms for suicide or talking about it, thinking about it, are 11 and under.
So we've got to, we can't, with the band-aid, we've got to We need for you to give an uninterrupted what people need to know.
I've been putting up how to follow you.
Give us a final word, the valedictory, a denouement, so to speak.
Well, first, thank you for having me.
Having me on your platform and thank all of you for having me and listening to me today.
And I also want to thank all of you who participated in our Lionel Nation fundraiser for your birthday, which is still going on.
I'm going to mention that.
On Facebook.
On Facebook.
That's a Facebook fundraiser because all of the monies we raised for the Warriors goes directly into our educational programs, which we're rolling out next month.
In different schools and also to survivors and victims of human trafficking for things such as food, clothing, transportation, medication, things like that.
So I want to just thank everybody for their generosity and for all of you following me also on YouTube at LinzWarriors.
I am going to leave everybody with one thing.
To think about all of what we just discussed.
And I could sit again 24 hours and keep talking about all the different things going on.
The number one step is you must start.
These are our precious children.
We are in charge.
Parental autonomy, family units, grandparents, siblings.
Oops, sorry.
Oops.
You know, I've got, hang on, I've got you.
Oops.
You must have just added that.
Sorry about that, everybody.
That's you, by the way.
That was me talking.
Communicate with your kids.
Start talking to your kids.
I leave you with a final note.
Hug your kids and tell them you love them.
No matter what they're doing, what they're saying, how they're acting, hug them and kiss them.
We love our children.
And there you have it.
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It's something that there's a warning.
It's not a rabbit hole, but it's a world that is so dark, but it's there.
And in order for it to be addressed, you've got to buckle up and brace for impact because you cannot believe.
That you share DNA with these people.
We'll leave it at that.
My darling, thank you.
I love you.
I love you.
Thank you.
We will see you tomorrow.
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Until then, the monkey's dead.
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