Kids and online porn
p2pnet.net News:- Aggressive tactics by pornography marketers, and the increased speed and capacity of computers and Net connections, have led to a “pronounced increase” in Net users aged 10 to 17 being laid open to “unwanted pornography”.
In 2005, one-third of youngsters, compared to 25% in 1999-2000, were exposed to online porn, says Online Victimization of Youth: Five Years Later, conducted by University of New Hampshire researchers for the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC).
There was also an increase in online harassment, which rose to 9% compared to 6% in the earlier survey. This, says the report, is, “consistent with growing indicators of online incivility among youth”.
But there was less sexual solicitation – “only 1 in 7 in 2005 compared to 1 in 5 youth in 1999-2000” – because of, “more cautious behavior by young people, fewer of whom went to chat rooms or interacted online with people they did not know” thanks in part to, “educational messages and media stories about the dangers of online encounters”.
Unfortunately, however, “the most serious kinds of sexual solicitations, those in which solicitors attempted to make offline contact with youth, did not decline,” says the study, suggesting, “the most determined solicitors have not been deterred and that more targeted prevention efforts may be necessary to reach some youth”.
And much of the unwanted porn was extremely graphic, says the report, emphasising that more should be done to promote the reporting of offensive behavior and content.
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August 11th, 2006 at 12:50 am
Anyone who values their liberties and who has studied history should be afraid – very afraid — of these laws.
Long before Hitler killed the first Jew in Nazi Germany, he paved the way for the wholesale disenfranchisement of human beings by — you guessed it — attacking the rights of sex offenders. From 1933 through 1936, a series of amendments were passed to Paragraphs 173 through 188 of the German Penal Law specifically targeting homosexuals and others determined to be “sexual deviants.”
The sex offender laws created under the Nazi Third Reich may as well have been the model for “Megan’s Law.” They established the first sex offender registry, required sex offenders to register their whereabouts and to wear pink triangles, and established draconian punishments for sex crimes that included long prison terms, loss of voting rights, confinement in concentration camps, and (sometimes) the death penalty. All of these laws were justified by the Nazi’s in the same way that our present-day politicians justify Megan’s Law: to protect the children from sexual predators.
Of course, Hitler had other things in mind, as history shows us; and targeting sex offenders was just a way to establish the precedent of wholesale deprivation of human rights in preparation for his later attacks against the people he truly hated.
It’s doubtful that the German people would have acquiesced to Hitler’s rounding up Jews, Gypsies, Communists, Socialists, trade unionists, and so forth, and sending them off to death camps in 1933 when he first ascended to power. Hitler had to first establish a precedent that some people were subhuman and unworthy of human rights — and he started with the most universally despised group he could find.
Anyone who thinks that this couldn’t happen again is delusional. The simple fact is that history shows that you can’t single out one group for deprivation of civil rights without weakening those rights for everyone else.
Comment by Liberty Lover — May 7, 2006 @ 8:54 am
From: http://portlandme.wpadmin.about.com/?comments_popup=257612:
Giving up your rights that millions have fought to KEEP just so you can ‘feel safe’ is the very definition of cowardice.
btljooz
August 11th, 2006 at 9:59 pm
That was a very well written reply to the previous post. I agree with you 100%!
}On a side note, when are we going to have theft offender, murder offender, assault offender, female assault offender, property damaging offender, and reckless driver offender registries?…….{
EXACTLY! Which list will we EACH find ourselves on?