Safeguard the Web for Children: Blog Power!

Going around the internet i found something very interesting and worthy of dedicate a few lines here:

SEX

Yes, the web content that all of us, my friends and casual readers, seek for at least one time in our lives.
Explicit pictures, great and in-shape silhouettes that can entertain our imagination at least for that moment. Free sex videos are very easy to find in a wide range of "performances".

Lets be honest: You have seen this kind of content as well as I have seen it. (Yes, you too; be honest >.< )

Even if we are not looking for that kind of information, it suddenly pop up from a single click we did somewhere, or sometimes even automatically.

That situation is easy to imagine.

Now, imagine how would you feel if your little child, nephew, niece or grandchild, boy or girl, suddenly get this kind of unexpected adds while looking in any web searcher for their favorite TV program, or even "Barbie".

... exactly...

Children are landing on this kind of web content more often than we can imagine.

So...

Can we, in our condition of bloggers, contribute with something?

Yep. At least with this:

Please support this campaign: Blogger Power: Safeguard the Web for Children

This campaign was started by Jon Harmon, founder of Force for Good, and Mihaela Lica of Pamil Visions some days ago this month. And on the web page you can realize what is this about:

"... Just to make things clear:

• this is not a campaign against pornography as a whole
• this is not about restricting legitimate free speech and legal commerce
• this is a common sense request to all the “adult site” webmasters: password-protected login on porn sites for all the explicit materials, no more “free clips”, “free tours”, “free pics” without login!..."

The common sense request to all the “adult site” webmasters is this:

"...Please require a password-protected login before allowing even free access to explicit adult content. We understand that selling porn is your business and we respect your right to make a legal living. But understand our legitimate concerns and work with us. You already have the “warning adult content” on your websites. Yet kids, who are not legal customers of your product, ignore the warning. So to prevent them from having direct access to explicit images, texts and sounds, the simplest way is to have a password-protected login. No more “free tours” before a visitor supplies basic information...."

What i think is that the other half of the solution should be about making the parents or tutors realize that if they have enough money to gain access to internet at home, they should definitely think in a way to prevent their children to view this kind of explicit information, if there is no one who can keep an eye on them. Buy a protection software, look for some tricks on internet. This is not NASA stuff or something like that.

You bought the computer, you put the internet service... now you find a solution.

Also, parents should check about the restrictions that schools have to prevent children to see this content. In my opinion of course: Education always starts at home. Not even schools can replace the importance of parents in matter of guidance.

They rely on you... they are counting on you.

Do it for him. Do it for her. Take some time and guide them properly...

...if you really care, of course.