- PANDEMIC - Pedos & Child Porn in the News - Equal Parenting-BC

Both MSN and AOL offer customisable parental controls that can be accessed from only the master or administrator
account as part of subscription services, dubbed MSN Premium and AOL Client Software respectively.
While the details vary between the two systems, the fundamentals are the same. Parents can choose from three
default settings that are broadly defined as preteen, young teenager and mature teenager or an unrestricted setting,
all of which can be further customised. Each default setting has varying levels of access to web browsing, chat,
instant messaging and email. Preteens can be blocked from IM completely while young teenagers are allowed
access but file downloads are blocked. Older teenagers have a higher level of access again.
Other controls include restricted contact lists, download blocks regardless of default setting, reports that don't record
a child's conversations but identify websites that were visited, or attempted to visit, and the online identity of people
contacted via IM and email.
All these controls, however, can be circumvented through a variety of means such as using a non-AOL web
browser, although this can be countered by turning on Internet Access Controls which blocks all non-AOL software,
or a non-Microsoft IM client. Ultimately, however, there is no substitute for education and parental supervision.
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How society enables the abuse of kids
USA - World Net Daily, PR - April 2, 2005
By Dr. Kelly Hollowell
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43611
Few things upset me more than hearing a child was abducted, sexually assaulted and killed. In the case of 9-year-old
Jessica Lunsford, the crime was committed by a registered sex offender who failed to report that he relocated as
required by law.
What's worse, this repeat offender reportedly made it no secret that he was unable to control his depraved urges. His
24 arrests spanning 30 years and his rap sheet practically guaranteed his days of predation would continue.
Just about the same time this story aired, I saw a segment on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" warning of the predatorlike
nature of child molesters. It showed an interview with a pedophile who told of the premeditated nature of his
crimes. He specifically told how he manipulated his young victims to trust him.
After the interview, Oprah herself related pieces of her own story.
She was molested by an uncle when she was a young girl. It wasn't until she was in her 40s that her father asked for
the details of what happened. Her response to her father and the viewing audience was that no matter what
happened, she was violated by her uncle and her uncle alone "was responsible."
Oprah said (and I paraphrase), "Even if I approached him naked and sat on his head, he had the responsibility to tell
me to go home, put my clothes on or walk away. He was the adult, and I was the child."
I couldn't agree with Oprah more. I strongly suspect that most of the millions of women watching her program also
agreed.
So the question is: "Why don't we better protect our children from and more aggressively pursue sexual predators?"
The answer, in part, is because as a society, we glamorize and promote sex through every possible venue. Selling
sex is a multi-billion dollar industry. It is integral to mainstream media, available through the Internet and sold
through billboards, bookstores and supermarkets. We not only expose adults but also our children to every form of
sexuality, including information on alternative lifestyles in grade school.
We treat children as though they are capable of adult sexual relationships when they are not. Proof can be seen
almost any night in prime-time television programming, which has the impact of making both victims and predators
of our children.
Just last week, a local prosecutor, told me of one of his cases in which a 14-year-old boy molested his 4-year-old
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