Does the Internet Affect Our Children? |
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| Icydemon
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13-Mar-2005 20:14:16 |
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zZine (original author: crtw)
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| It is widely known that the 21st century is the century of information. This information includes things which are profitable business ventures, like pornography. But how well are our children protected from pornography and other internet threats?
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If you go for a walk you will probably find a video store somewhere near your neighbourhood. Nearly every video store has an "Adult" section. Children cannot enter that section, much like they cannot stay out after a specific hour. The Internet, however, is a different story.
First of all, let's do a search on altavista and also on Google for the word "porn". Here is the result:
AltaVista: found 63,800,000 results
Google: about 31,500,000
These are both well known search engines, for adults and for children. Most of us will say that nudity is a not such a bad thing but on the Internet, there is "nudity" that is acceptable (anatomical diagrams),and some which is not (child pornography).
Child pornography is not new. There has been this type of exploitation since the invention of video recording. Now it is spreading like a virus through the Internet. Sadly, many people care more for money than for the souls of innocent children. Yet, there are no controls in place to supervise the Internet.
Now, Internet stores sell many things, from books to drugs, from CDs to suicide advice. Is it time to control content? Recently, a guy in my country committed suicide because someone else told him how to do it. This happened on an IRC network where no one can control it as much as I think it must be controlled. Today I logged into IRC, and I saw people with illegal pornography, others with illegal programs, and still others with MP3s. All these things are illegal, but who is checking anyway?
Newsgroups, which are older than the Internet as most of us know it, have illegal pornography, illegal programs and mp3s (and amongst them thank god have very interesting c++ articles). Some say that all of us have MP3s or illegal programs in our hard drives. The problem is not that. The problem is that the Internet is not properly controlled. As our ethics and morals fall one by one, our children become less and less protected against anything that harms them.
I believe that it is the time to get more concerned about protection of children. They are tomorrow's workers, tomorrow's scientists, tomorrow's leaders. We want to build our society, not destroy it, in order to build a better world for our children. I know that we can't do many things by ourselves, but the masses have power - great power. I think it is time to use that power.
This article was originally published by CyberArmy.net in the CyberArmy Library.
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