Parental Control Software Better Than Myspace For Stopping Sex Offenders
While Myspace is struggling to remove sex offenders from its database, the only real solution to protecting kids is still parental control software.
At the courant.com, the issue Myspace is facing sounds dangerous, and almost hopeless. With 550,000 registered sex offenders in the United States, how can the social networking giant expect to keep them all away from the kids who use the site regularly?
Myspace is indeed working to build and implement technologies designed to block convicted sex offenders from accessing the site, but such technology is based on the known names and addresses of the offenders. As Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said, "the database would be ineffective without age and identity verification," since all the sex offender would need to do to bypass Myspace's blocks would be to lie.
And as we have all heard, sex offenders and Internet predators are very good liars. After all, this is how they manipulate their victims.
Here again is why parental control software is the first and best answer to protecting kids from predators. A good parental control software system, like Awareness Tech's WebWatcher, can give parents multiple options, like website blocking, website recording, email recording, and chat recording.
No one can protect a kid as effectively as a watchful parent in the home. With WebWatcher, every parent can check on their child's Internet use, making sure that their new "friend" isn't a sex offender in disguise.
At the courant.com, the issue Myspace is facing sounds dangerous, and almost hopeless. With 550,000 registered sex offenders in the United States, how can the social networking giant expect to keep them all away from the kids who use the site regularly?
Myspace is indeed working to build and implement technologies designed to block convicted sex offenders from accessing the site, but such technology is based on the known names and addresses of the offenders. As Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said, "the database would be ineffective without age and identity verification," since all the sex offender would need to do to bypass Myspace's blocks would be to lie.
And as we have all heard, sex offenders and Internet predators are very good liars. After all, this is how they manipulate their victims.
Here again is why parental control software is the first and best answer to protecting kids from predators. A good parental control software system, like Awareness Tech's WebWatcher, can give parents multiple options, like website blocking, website recording, email recording, and chat recording.
No one can protect a kid as effectively as a watchful parent in the home. With WebWatcher, every parent can check on their child's Internet use, making sure that their new "friend" isn't a sex offender in disguise.
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