As the Senate Judiciary Committee calls the CEOs of some of the industry’s largest platforms to testify, the question is not whether the internet can be safe for children. It is whether tech companies, policymakers, and child safety advocates are moving fast enough to ensure that it is.

Almost all American teenagers are online daily, and the attempts to exploit them and younger children are persistent. Last year, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received 21 million reports related to suspected child exploitation, the vast majority generated by platforms proactively detecting and disrupting abuse.