Sworn To Fight Porn
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Blogger Power is fighting the good fight — the fight to keep online pornography from being so freely available to anyone and everyone. Just like them, I am concerned about how it affects our children. Kids are curious beings and so easily impressionable. It doesn’t take much to find this sort of thing online, nor does it take much to actually protect them from it.
According to some statistics I found, approximately “28,258 Internet users are viewing pornography” every second! The word “sex” was searched on 75,608,612 last year. And there are about 4.2 million porn-related sites online today, and that number is sure to be growing at a rapid rate everyday.
My friends at Blogger Power aren’t looking to restrict free speech. But they are pleading to porn site owners to use common sense by simply “wrapping” their material much like a pornographic magazine wraps their’s in plastic. It’s so simple to require some form of age authentication on these sites (like requiring a credit card). I guess they’re just afraid reducing their site’s exposure no matter if it means that a child may land on it.
Even something as simple as requiring a password can deter young eyes. Anything to keep the material as far away from them as possible. Surely, porn site owners have to admit that their business will not crumble if they do something about this.
What can you do? Well, if you’re a blogger post your support on your blog for the common decency one should take to protecting our children from adult content. Then show your support on BP’s blog. If you’re not a blogger, but are of voting age, then you can contact your local state representatives and let them know that you want them to do more to fight porn.
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An excellent post.
The easy access to pornography is a little like leaving a loaded gun within reach of a child. It is not an accident if something happens. It is negligent. The arguments that it is not that big a deal if they see it or that the parents just need to keep closer watch on their kids is just negligence.
While children do need supervision, they should not need a parent hovering over their shoulders 24hrs a day. They should be reasonably safe in the first place.
While I appreciate all of your concerns, the really scary thing, (for me) as a parent is not that my children will be accidentally exposed to pornography. I do what I can to prevent it, but the reality is that even when I was a kid I had friends who’d found their parents’ “stash” of pornography… the internet has only made it easier. What’s really frightening to me is that, one, my children might get exposed to some of the really disturbing pornography (there’s a lot of it) that might give them a skewed perception of sex, and two, the online child predators.
One post states that parents shouldn’t have to watch their children 24-7 on the computer. While that might be excessive, no amount of legislation can prevent online predators from preying on children. The only way to keep your kids safe from these sickos is to educate them as to the dangers of online predators and to monitor their computer usage as often as possible. You have no other choice. Even if all pornography was outlawed, it would still be easy for computer savy kids to find it, and for computer savy predators to find kids. You don’t want to monitor your children? Get rid of your computer. Don’t be stupid, lazy, or naive. If you didn’t want to work at protecting your children you probably shouldn’t have had any children. This website, the lobbying you do, while I sympathize with your concerns, its barking up the wrong tree. It’s your jobs as parents to do what you can to protect your kids. It borders on idiocy, and is certainly ignorant, to think that you can expect the government to protect you from cyberspace.
I wish the world were happy and perfect where we could let our children run free without having to concern ourselves with protecting them. Here in my neighborhood, however, I can look up the Megan’s law website and find five convicted child molesters living within a half-mile of me. I can’t even let my kids ride their bikes to school alone! How can I honestly expect to do less with the internet? Wake up people! We live in a messed up world!
Thanks for the well thought-out post, Mook. You make a great point. Parents are the ones responsible, ultimately, for their children’s behavior and actions, but I feel the government still should play a role in all this.
There will always be a way to get at porn like any other “forbidden fruit”, but efforts should still be directed at making it not as easy as it is today.
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