In our Internet world, we have no way to steer our children onto the right path when
it comes to adult content forcefully thrown at our youth.It is high time that
we as an Internet world take responsibility by regulating content pathways. O� yes,
there is "Net Nanny" and other software that parent's can buy in an attempt to shield
the innocent eyes of children, but it doesn't work. All a child has to do is go over
to a friend's house where their parent's are unaware of site blocking software and
see whatever comes onto the computer monitor.
I have seen cases where some porn
sites attempt to thwart site blocking software by inserting additional characters
between the word "SEX" i.e. "S-E-X" or "S E X" or "S:E:X" and other words. I believe
this intentional grabbing at our youth is preposterous.
Lets take for instance
a situation I ran into when searching for graphics using "Yahoo". I simply put in
the word "Graphics" into their search box and instead of finding what I was looking
for, I found links to Gay/Lesbian, and other porn sites. To say the least, I was
appalled.
It is time to introduce TLD's like .kid, .sex and .xxx and then apply
regulatory controls on the registrations for those TLD's, move all of the poison
adult content away from .com, .net and .org then apply said content to the appropriate
TLD's. This will give parents an equal hand at controlling what our children see
because by God, they are our children and you and everyone on the planet should give
a damn about what they see at such a young age.
I remember the day where you could
walk into a magazine shop and right up front was some of the filthiest smut you could
imagine and it was available for our teenage youth to skim through. But what happened?
State agencies required that you must be eighteen to purchase said smut and they
mandated that said smut be placed behind checkout counters away from our youth. This
is the same action that should be taken for the internet.
A few weeks ago I saw
Republicans and Democrats alike going after the entertainment industry with regards
to violent content thrown at our youth. So where the "HELL" are they with regards
to internet content?
It's not about free speech! You can be free to speak wherever
you want to, so long as you speak in the appropriate setting.