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Internet safety is usually packaged as protection for children. Don’t get me wrong we need to protect our youth,but we also need protection for the adults of the household.

When people of all ages are on the Internet, there is very little accountability in regards to knowing where, when and how long they have been on the Internet. The use a good Internet filter will assist in keeping your household free of the dangers of the Internet.

A good filter will have the capability of generating reports of usage of a computers visited web sites. It will also add a accountability feature that will allow you to have a partner view your surfing history.

PORNOGRAPHY ADDICTION STATS

PORNOGRAPHY ADDICTION AND INDUSTRY STATISTICS

As of 2003, there were 1.3 million pornographic websites; 260 million pages

U.S. adult DVD/video rentals in 2005: almost 1 billion (Adult Video News).
Hotel viewership for adult films: 55% (cbsnews.com).

Unique worldwide users visiting adult web sites monthly: 72 million

Number of hardcore pornography titles released in 2005 .

Adults admitting to Internet sexual addiction: 10%; 28% of those are women .

More than 70% of men from 18 to 34 visit a pornographic site in a typical month (comScore Media Metrix).

More than 20,000 images of child pornography posted online every week (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 10/8/03).

Approximately 20% of all Internet pornography involves children (National Center for Mission & Exploited Children).

100,000 websites offer illegal child pornography (U.S. Customs Service estimate).

As of December 2005, child pornography was a $3 billion annual industry .

“At a 2003 meeting of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, two thirds of the 350 divorce lawyers who attended said the Internet played a significant role in the divorces in the past year, with excessive interest in online porn contributing to more than half such cases. Pornography had an almost non-existent role in divorce just seven or eight years ago.” (Divorcewizards.com)

Internet safety is not just for children

Protect yourself from the temptation of pornography, put a stop to the open door of filth that is pumped into your household via the Internet.

Please don’t allow your self to become another satistic,protect yourself and your household with a good filtering system.

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House Web Safety Bill Forthcoming

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., will soon introduce legislation that would create a competitive grant program for state and local education agencies and non-profit organizations to provide Internet safety education to teachers, schools and parents. The bill would authorize up to $175 million over a five year period, would be administered by the Justice Department in collaboration with the departments of Health and Human Services and Education.

There is no one thing that will that will eliminate misuse of the Internet. It must be a joint effort with parents leading in the way. Wasserman Schultz said at a Wednesday briefing on Capitol Hill sponsored by Point Smart, Click Safe – a coalition of non-profits and companies like Comcast, Google, Verizon, and Yahoo. “Our bill recognizes that knowledge must be our children’s first line of defense”

We as pareants must educate our children in the dangers of the Internet. There are a host of products that can aid in safe Internet usage, but it comes down to parents talking with there children and implementing a good Internet filtering system.

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Don’t be a FOOL!

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Internet Filtering Software, also known as Porn Blocking software, is software designed and optimized for controlling what content is permitted appear on a computer, especially when it is used to restrict material delivered over the Web. Content-control software determines what content will be available on a particular machine or network; the motive is often to prevent persons from viewing content which the computer’s owner(s) or other authorities may consider objectionable. Common use cases of such software include parents who wish to protect their children by limiting what sites their children may view from home computers, schools performing the same function with regard to computers found at school, and employers restricting what content may be viewed by employees while on the job.

Companies that make products that selectively block Web sites do not refer to these products as censorware, and prefer terms such as “Internet filter” or “URL Filter”; in the specialized case of software specifically designed to allow parents to monitor and protect their children, “parental control software” is also used. Some products log all sites that a user accesses and rates them based on content type for reporting to an “accountability partner” of the person’s choosing, and the term accountability software is used. Internet filters, parental control software, and/or accountability software may also be combined into one product.

Those who believe content-control software is useful may still not agree with certain ways in which it is used, or with mandatory general regulation of information. For example, many would disapprove of filtering viewpoints on  political issues, agreeing that this could become support for propaganda. Many would also find it unacceptable that an ISP, whether by law or by the ISP’s own choice, should deploy such software without giving the users a choice to disable the filtering for their own connections. In addition, some argue that using content-control software may violate sections 13 and 17 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. In 1998, a United States federal district court in Virginia foolishly ruled that the imposition of mandatory filtering in a public library violates the First Amendment of the U.S. Bill of Rights.

The use of Internet filters or content-control software varies widely in public libraries in the United States, since Internet use policies are established by the local library board. Many libraries adopted Internet filters after Congress conditioned the receipt of universal service discounts on the use of Internet filters through the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA). Other libraries do not install content control software, believing wrongly that acceptable use policies and educational efforts address the issue of children accessing inappropriate content while preserving what they believe to be adult users’ right to freely access porn. Some libraries use Internet filters on computers used by children only. Some libraries that employ content-control software allow the software to be deactivated on a case-by-case basis on application to a librarian; libraries that are subject to CIPA are required to have a policy that allows adults to request that the filter be disabled without having to explain the reason for their request.

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