Child Abuse Prevention Needs Community Help
Infozine.com discusses the ways by which financial institutions are seeking to stop child abuse by blocking payments methods to child porn sites.
This is proving very difficult to do, since child abuse, and specifically sexual abuse, is a huge (read: multi-billion dollar) business worldwide. To stop the trade in such materials will take a tremendous amount of time, money, and manpower.
Unfortunately, at the same time the sexual exploitation of children is on the rise, having grown more than 400% in the last 10 years. Why? The Internet, of course.
Child abuse and sexual abuse is easier to find thanks to the Internet, especially in terms of child porn, the publication of lurid tales on blog sites and the like, and even the live relaying of child abuse over the net.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has developed the Financial Coalition Against Child Pornography, which will have its work cut out for them.
The best things that regular civilians and parents can do is to be aware of what's going on, protect their children, and implement parental control software to block access to such sites from their home computer.
Parental control software also allows parents email recording and chat recording technology, making it easier for them to know who their child is talking to, and what they're seeing online. Awareness Tech's WebWatcher also allows parents to check their child's Internet activities from a remote location.
This is proving very difficult to do, since child abuse, and specifically sexual abuse, is a huge (read: multi-billion dollar) business worldwide. To stop the trade in such materials will take a tremendous amount of time, money, and manpower.
Unfortunately, at the same time the sexual exploitation of children is on the rise, having grown more than 400% in the last 10 years. Why? The Internet, of course.
Child abuse and sexual abuse is easier to find thanks to the Internet, especially in terms of child porn, the publication of lurid tales on blog sites and the like, and even the live relaying of child abuse over the net.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has developed the Financial Coalition Against Child Pornography, which will have its work cut out for them.
The best things that regular civilians and parents can do is to be aware of what's going on, protect their children, and implement parental control software to block access to such sites from their home computer.
Parental control software also allows parents email recording and chat recording technology, making it easier for them to know who their child is talking to, and what they're seeing online. Awareness Tech's WebWatcher also allows parents to check their child's Internet activities from a remote location.
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