All over the world teenagers and young children who have internet access have a wide variety of porn at their disposal. The websites have no security, so all you have to do is click a button that says you are eighteen and you're in. You can put parental locks on a computer, but the internet is forever doing new things and a lot of parents still have not caught up to technology. A good part of the web is porn whether it be a sex website or some teen posting sensual pictures on their Facebook or Myspace pages. Do you believe there should be more restrictions placed on the internet, or should we trust our children to do the right thing?
Julius Ervin
23 comments:
I think either way you look at it children are gonna find a way to look at porn. Im 20 and kids around 10 or 12 are showing me how to do some stuff and im pretty good with electronics. These kids are ust so damn smart now with electronics its unbelievble. Theyll find away to do whatever they want so if you have more restrictions on the computer they will probably use the internet on their phone to do it. or Steel magazines from people or something, kids are sneaky, theyll find a way no matter what we do.
Kevin McBride
NO,that is what the internet is for. the web is a place for anything you want to look up. childeren should not be on the internet anyway that is my opinion. some parents does not let their child watch the news but they can get on the web. if a parent wants to let their child surf the web then i think they should be able to go to anything. they may wanna learn about sex. i feel parents do to much like child are not going to go somewhere else and google it. i say we trust are childeren and if they fail to do what they are suppose to do then take their rights of computer use away.
ASHIA STEVENS
Children don't really need to be on the internet anyways, maybe past the age of 10-12 I don't know but by then you'd hope you've had that "talk" with them so they understand, and make there own choices about that. Obviously if your kids want to use the computer and it's impossible to block EVERY porn site just block the internet or be there while there using it.
Matt Funk
Kids these day know more about sex and porn then I do. That I think is alot to blame on computers, and parents not checking to see what their kids are looking at. Talking to your kids about this subjset I think makes them know that it is out there and they may want to look but it is not for them. Let them know that you are keeping an eye on them. You can't stop them all the time from seeing this stuff but you can let them know you are aware of what they are doing and seeing. Dawn Smith
many parents now have facebook pages as well and they would probably know if their child had one. if a parent thinks their child is old enough to be posting pictures of themself on the internet then they should think they are old enough to make their own decisions and should know right from wrong. the parents who do trust their kids probably raised them right and the parents who dont are probably the ones who were never around to begin with and probably dont even care that their child is looking up porn. honestly, its just porn. yeah i think that looking it up is kinda sick but so are the people who put up the pictures. they can try to restrict it but someone is always gonna get through. sam tomson
I believe that the internet should have more restrictions on what can be accessed, and who can access it. Children do not need to be snooping around on the internet and stumble upon some sort of pornography, and you cannot simply just hope that by you trusting your child they will do the right thing. Children do not always know what the right thing is, and will tend to do whatever they want to anyways, especially if you tell them not to do something. The internet should have more, and better restrictions.
Kenneth East
I feel the more restrictions put on to accessing certain sites will just lead to more curiosity for the children and other. either way a child will stumble across it. All you can do is supervise the kids as they go on,and if you use a password to block the websites that only you know the password to then that will help, but there will always be more sights that will show up. Though it is getting easier and easier to block certain sites. with just one password. there I believe is a menu setting that blocks (among other things) sexually explicit, and graphic content. all you need to do is give that a password and then you wont have to really worry about it.
Cameron Smucker
I'm against adding restrictions to the internet over pornography. In my opinion, the internet is the greatest human invention to spread knowledge since the printing press. This access to knowledge should be protected in every way to every reasonable degree. I also think that there's a push in our society lately, to replace more direct parenting with more burdensome rules for everybody else. I think if parents really want to protect their children from things like pornography, they should take a more direct role in how their kids access the internet. I don't see the idea that "kids these days" are more familiar with the internet as an excuse, it just means the parents need to educate themselves about the computer before letting the kids use it. I wouldn't teach a kid to read then just negligently hand them a copy of Mein Kampf.
David Nadermann
I honestly believe that theres absolutely nothing that any parent can possibly do. Because in all actuality the more you restrict your child the more they venture out to explore it on their own. Children will do what they want regardless, if that is what it is they absolutely want to do. If you block your personal computer than i'm sure they'll find a way to breech out they're curiosity elsewhere so all I can advise to parents is to trust your child.
Quantia Braziel
I don't know if there could be anything done to stop it. Parents just really need to monitor their children. It's really hard to stay caught up with it, but parents really need to, or their little ones will find something they shouldn't. Kids just shouldn't have their own computer! Once they become teenagers there is really very little stopping them, but I would have to think that parents would much rather catch their teen looking a porn than actually having sex!
Sarah Albin
Well you can get child blocks but the parents have to be the one that are in charge of that. To many kids at a young age know to many things about the computer and i don't know that much. They will find a way to get to certain websites and sometimes there parents don't even know. So i think the parents should out a lock on it so they can't recieve those sites and if they crack it they will just have to lock it again.
Aubrey Welch
I believe that if children want to look at porn then they will. It isn't up to the websites to prevent children from lying; it's up to the parents. When I was growing up my parents put parental locks on the computer and they watched what I was doing on the computer at almost all times. But if I still wanted to view porn I’m sure I could have found a way, with either magazines or videos. The porn business is a billion dollar business and if children want to view porn, they will find a way.
Melody Nelligan
Teenagers are always doing whatever they want to do anyway. They can just as easily look up porn on the internet, as well as, on the t.v. They should come out with another box or controller that the parents of these children should be able to control alone putting it up some place where very few would be able to find it. Anyway, the child is already exposed you may as well let him or her look at it anyway. Tracey Boswell
Yes there should be more restrictions placed on the internet because its so easy to access something that can put images in a childs mind that even if they want to forget it may be hard to. Parents have to monitor what their children are doing on these web sites even if it mean that you have to put a parental locks on the computer for their safety. That not saying the parents don't trust their child but its the parent doing what is in the best intrest of the child. And it helps the parent by not having to explain what sex is before the age appropriate time for the child.
They could have the person enter a drivers license number. That way they will know if the person is really over 18 or not. But then the problem would be identity theft. Even if they give that info out, there is still a chance of that. My parents did trust me when using the internet. I think you just have to limit their time on the computer. Usually kids play games on the computer. If chances are of them looking up porn in slim. But when they get older and start understanding, they just need to be punished. There isn't really anything they can do. Kids are always going to find a way.
Samantha Odendaal
No, there should not be more restriction place on the internet. Regardless, to if a parent know alot about how to operate the computers; they have heard or seen what is available on the internet. If the parents feel that their childern need computers, then they should get educated on the technology.Parents need to start being more responsible for their children. When young kids and teenagers are invovled in somthing; the parents should over see what their childern are doing.The internet is a good thing for childern, because they can learn alot. I have a five year old daughter, and I let her go on educational sites, where she do learn. By the time she get to be a teenager, mostly every thing is going to have to do with computers. When she do get older, I am going to still keep an eye on her.Their is sex eveywhere: in the songs, on the internet, movies, and sitcoms. Parents just need to set rules, follow up on those rules, and pray that their children listen.
Brittany Williams
Well no one has really put any restrictions on the internet how can you because its the world wide web, Anyone, anywhere, at anytime can put something on there. So it is up to parenting and the trust in your children and also the amount of time the child is online.
Perents should trust their children to do the right thing, but now days thats not going to happen. Kids at a young age already know what the word sex really mean, they know things I didn't even know when I was young. This has not become a problem just because of the internet but also because of the media, telivision, things they see their parents doing or saying, and also their peers. Regardless If restrictions are strickly enforced, they'll find a way! But something should be done about it!
Parents should keep in track of what their kids are doing on the internet. Kids like to explore around the net, i have seen a lot of kid now around 5 years old and they turn on the computer and surf around the net with out parents permission. Children should not be using internet at the young age.
Mohammed Ahmad
Porn is everywhere, and kids my age are getting busted for child porn sending pictures on their phones. Its stupid. I feel that every parent should sit with their child while on the computer.
CODY
YUK!!!!! Before filters (and even after to some degree) I had a time that junk would come in on my email. Not suspecting from the titles what I was getting into, and before I learned to shut off preview, I would get appalling images forced on me. Those images, even fleeting (as they were immediately deleted), were difficult to forget. I, as an adult, was negatively affected. How much more do you think a child would be. Children are being robbed of their innocence and even of the ability to learn what is normal.
Back on the soapbox... TV contributes way too much to the problem, and where TV leaves off comes internet. Parents have no choice but to ride this issue hard! Too often, parents leave their children to be babysat by the computer, not knowing what the kids are seeing. Too often children innocently open something they think is a game, etc. only to get more than they bargained for.
Control or limit the interenet from pornography? I wish they could, but in comes issues like censorship, ownership rights... on and on. Every time there is some form of limit or filter, the porn industry works to get around it. Their adgenda is extremely strong.
Trust our kids to do the right thing? Yes, teaching them right from wrong is essential. However, pornography is an evil thing that, again, much like gambling and other vices, is addicting. The porn addiction problem today has caused innumerable problems in marriages, break downs of homes, suicides from guilt associated with it, as well as physical sexual addictions and sexual violence. It all starts with access. The people throwing that stuff up on the internet do it for their gain, not for the welfare of others. Parents MUST be parents and protect their children! No different than allowing them to be physically hurt/damaged, the mental damage porn inflicts is equally harmful. Parents, BE PARENTS!!
(Not to be onesided, porn is everywhere. Printed material, movies, etc... are too available also. Parents..... are you awake?)
Joann Logsdon
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