What About When They Aren't At Home?
In response to the myspace crisis, we've been hearing a lot lately about controlling Internet use in the home. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children reminds parents to keep Internet use at a minimum, don't let your kids use it unattended, and don't let kids have access to the Internet in their bedrooms.
But what about when they leave home?
Computers are a fact of every day life now -- in schools and internet cafes kids and adults alike have access to the information superhighway.
So it shouldn't be too surprising when a registered sex offender is caught using public computers to download child pornography. It happened in a Wichita Falls library, but there's little doubt this is an isolated case.
Of course, this also means that public computers pose a whole new problem. Whether in the library, at work, or at school, kids and internet predators can still run into each other. And we can talk to our kids day and night, but we can't ever know what they're really going to do.
Awareness Tech's WebWatcher is a great means of tackling such a problem. With WebWatcher, it would be easy to know what employees are downloading porn, who kids are talking to at Internet cafes and schools, and what exactly is being said.
And, no legal sites need be affected, so the positive uses of the Internet remain intact.
But what about when they leave home?
Computers are a fact of every day life now -- in schools and internet cafes kids and adults alike have access to the information superhighway.
So it shouldn't be too surprising when a registered sex offender is caught using public computers to download child pornography. It happened in a Wichita Falls library, but there's little doubt this is an isolated case.
Of course, this also means that public computers pose a whole new problem. Whether in the library, at work, or at school, kids and internet predators can still run into each other. And we can talk to our kids day and night, but we can't ever know what they're really going to do.
Awareness Tech's WebWatcher is a great means of tackling such a problem. With WebWatcher, it would be easy to know what employees are downloading porn, who kids are talking to at Internet cafes and schools, and what exactly is being said.
And, no legal sites need be affected, so the positive uses of the Internet remain intact.
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