No More Justification Needed: It's Time for Content Filtering
The journal Pediatrics is reporting that children and teens are accidentally exposed to pornography at disturbing rates. The findings are based on telephone surveys of teen Internet users and the honesty of responses is easily questioned. Even if the some of the exposure is not so accidental, the fact that unwanted material is so easily making its way into homes and businesses is the broader problem.
Time magazine reports:
More children and teens are being exposed to online pornography, mostly by accidentally viewing sexually explicit Web sites while surfing the Internet, researchers say.
Forty-two percent of Internet users aged 10 to 17 surveyed said they had seen online pornography in a recent 12-month span. Of those, 66 percent said they did not want to view the images and had not sought them out, University of New Hampshire researchers found.
Sci-Tech Today goes further and finds marketer’s tactics aren’t so passive anymore.
Aggressive tactics by pornography marketers, combined with the increased speed and capacity of computers and Internet connections, are partially to blame for the increase, researchers said.
Whether you are responsible for a home network or a business network, its time to look into content filtering if you haven’t already.
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