Children's Safety on the Internet

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This paper discusses the issue of whether state and federal Internet laws and regulations make it any safer for children. Do we judge this level of safety by the number of child pornographers convicted or is that number an indication of a horrible reality that one cannot cure, but only prevent? In attempting to answer these questions, and a few more, the paper seeks evidence from state laws and analyzes each of the laws in different sections of the paper.

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"One effective way parents can combat this is by using child-monitoring software and educating their children against the potential hazards of chatting with strangers. But what about computer access outside home such as in public libraries? There is certainly concern in this regard as pointed by research conducted at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. The research conducted at pubic and school libraries drew on computer records of online activity, from which it was found that the actual material being downloaded in comparison with the stated reasons for Internet use were very different. The research team reviewed 917,410 images in the 18 month research period to discover that 83.5 percent of them were pornographic. This reflects the fact that trading explicit photographs is one of the most widely conducted activities over the internet."

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