Transcript Internet Safety

World Hope International
Board and Friends Dinner
March 17, 2006
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
INTERNET SAFETY
RULES ‘N TOOLS ™
Prepared by Donna Rice Hughes
(Presentation copyrighted)
Overview
 Internet
dangers (vs. benefits)
 Children’s access to pornography
 Cyber-sex & addiction
 Pedophiles’ access to children
 Preventative solutions & Rules ‘N
Tools™
 Spiritual
Dynamics
Internet Dangers
(A tool used for good or evil)
1. Free and easy access to inappropriate and
illegal content with unrestricted Net access:
• Pornography (child porn, obscenity, harmful to minors)
2. Predators have easy and anonymous access to
unsuspecting kids
SPIRITUAL BATTLE
Our struggle is not against flesh and
blood, but against rulers, powers, forces
of darkness & spiritual forces of
wickedness.Take up the full armor of
God to resist in the evil day and having
done everything to STAND FIRM.
(Ephesians 6:1-19)
PORNEIA
(Symbolic of Idolatry,
)
Word Study
To commit any sexual sin
 “Pornography” is the graphic depiction
of sexual immorality
 Root word for pornography, harlot,
prostitute, fornicator, whoremonger
 Idolatry - worship of body and body
parts (Romans 1:21-2:1)
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The “Adult” Internet Industry
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$12 billion dollars in annual revenue –
larger than the combined annual
revenues of ABC, NBC, and CBS
(Family Safe
Media, Jan. 2006)
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By the end of 2004, 420 million pages
of pornography owned by less than 50
companies (Summit on Pornography, 5/19/05).
Deceptive Tactics
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74% of adult commercial sites display free
teaser pornography images on homepage,
often banner ads
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25% prevented users from exiting site
(mousetrapping)
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Only 3% required adult verification
(Child-proofing on the World wide Web: A Survey of Adult Webservers,2001, Jurimetrics.
NRC Report 2002)
Unintentional Access
• Misspelled words
• Innocent searches (toys, boys, pets, etc.)
• Stealth sites (whitehouse, watersports)
• Brand name misuse (Disney, Nintendo,
Barbie, Levis, etc.)
Youth and Internet
Pornography
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Adult industry says traffic is 20-30% children
(NRC Report 2002)
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More than 11 million teens regularly view
porn online ( The Washington Post, July 1, 2004).
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87% of polled college students have virtual
sex using IM, webcam, and telephone (Canadian
poll, www.campuskiss.com, 2006)
Easy and Free Access
9
in 10 kids ages 8-16 years have
viewed pornography online, mostly
unintentionally, and when using the
Internet to do homework (UK:News
Telegraph, NOP Research Group, 1/17/02)
Online Obscenity
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Girls.com vs. Gurls.com
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Watersports.com
● Pornography depicting bodily functions
● Live video
CYBER-SEX COMPULSIONS
“CRACK COCAINE”
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71.9 million people -August 2005
42.7% of the Internet audience (Media Metrix).
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41% of women viewed or downloaded porn
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1 in 6, including Christians, struggles with an
addiction to pornography (Today's Christian Woman,
2005).
(Pornified:
September/October 2003).
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51% of pastors say cyberporn is a possible
temptation. 37% say it is a current struggle (Christianity
Today, Leadership Survey, December 2001).
Harms
• Affects attitudes, choices and behavior
• Demeans children, women, and men
• Counterfeit for love, intimacy, and commitment
• Addiction - drug of choice - anesthetizes pain
• Porn is a drug delivery device
• Images never erased
Harms (cont.)
Incidents of young children displaying
sexually aggressive behavior has
increased, exposure to online porn is a
key factor (Australian study, 11/2003)
 May incite children to act out sexually
against other children
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Child Pornography
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More than half of all illegal sites are hosted in
the U.S. (National Criminal Intelligence Service, 8/21/03).
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Approximately 20% of all Internet
pornography involves children (National Center for
Missing & Exploited Children, 2003).
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More babies and toddlers are appearing on
the net, the abuse is getting worse (Combating
Peadophile Information Networks, 3/03)
Child Porn Ring Bust
March 15
A private Internet chat room used
worldwide - including streaming videos
of live molestations –’molestation on
demand’
 Ever-younger and more defenseless
group of child victims
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Child Porn and the Predator
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40% of arrested child pornography possessors had
both sexually victimized children and were in
possession of child pornography (NCMEC June 2005).
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Of those arrested in the U.S. for the possession of
child pornography between 2000 and 2001, 83% had
images involving children between ages 6 and 12;
39% had images involving children between ages 3
and 5; and 19% had images of infants and toddlers
under age 3
(National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, 2005).
Porn Fuels Demand For
Human Trafficking
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Lack of enforcement - Pornographers flood culture
with depictions of rape, bondage, group sex and child
pornography.
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Acting out - Pornography encourages people to
indulge their darkest sexual fantasies, we cannot act
surprised when millions do so in real life as well.
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The first step toward reducing demand for sex slaves
is to prosecute obscenity, which serves as a training
manual for abuse.
Predators Online
• Pedophiles’ & predators’ anonymous access to youth
• Easy access to child pornography
• Virtual validation
• Trade secrets & teaching tools
• Avoidance of law enforcement detection
PORNOGRAPHY- Tool used by
Pedophiles
to arouse the child,
 to lower the child’s inhibitions,
 to demonstrate to their victims what
they want them to do,
 to communicate that a particular sexual
activity is okay.
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Online Victimization: A Report
on the Nation’s Youth
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1 in 5 received sexual solicitation or
approach in last year (Sample of 1,501 youth ages 10-17
who use Internet regularly)
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50,000 predators online at any given
time (Dateline, NBC, 2005)
Juvenile Perpetrators
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Juveniles
– 48% of overall solicitations
– 48% of aggressive solicitations
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Adult solicitors– Most of the “adult” solicitors were ages 18-25
– 24% of solicitations
– 34% of aggressive solicitations
TOOL OF TODAY’S
PEDOPHILE (Chat, IM, Blogs)
• 89% of sexual solicitations were made in either
chat rooms or Instant Messages (Pew Study reported in
JAMA, 2001)
• “30% of teenage girls polled by the Girl Scout
Research Institute said they had been sexually
harassed in a chat room. Only 7%, however, told
their mothers or fathers about the harassment
because they were worried that their parents
would ban them from going online” (Girl Scout Research
Institute, 2002).
Youth Ignorance Factor
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Children ages 7-17 who surf the net, if asked
online:
- 29% would freely give out home address
- 14% would freely give email address
(Telegraph.co.uk. 1/02).
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65% of all parents and 64% of all teens say
that teens do things online that they wouldn’t
want their parents to know about (Pew Internet &
American Life Project, 12/12/05).
MySpace Cases
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16-year-old girl was attacked by a 37-year-old man
who read her profile on MySpace.com and tracked
her down at her after-school job (Jan 2006)
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17-year-old college freshman was murdered by man
who found her info. at MySpace.com (Sept 2005)
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33-year-old Hughson, CA firefighter was arrested for
having sex with a 16-year-old boy he met on
MySpace.com (March 2005)
Prevention:
Three-Prong Solution
• Shared responsibility between the
1. Public (Parents, Schools, Libraries)
2. Technology Industry
3. Legal Community - Law Enforcement & Public
Policy
4. Faith-Based
• Each provides an essential layer of protection
National Internet Safety &
Parental Empowerment Program
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Media Campaign- PSA’s, infomercials,
free media
Rules ‘N Tools™
– Training video
– Parent’s Pledge
– Parent Buddy Check
– Partnership
Legal Prong
Government and Law Enforcement
• Aggressive enforcement of current laws (child
pornography, obscenity, child stalking laws)
•The public should not have to shoulder the burden
of protecting against illegal content and criminal
activity
Legislation in the Courts
– Child Online Protection Act (COPA) - Adult verification
required - ACLU, ALA challenge-enjoined.
– Child Pornography Protection Act - Extend law to
include computer-generated child porn. Supreme Ct struck
down.
– Child Internet Protection Act (CIPA) - Requires
schools & libraries to filter - ACLU & ALA challenge (March
2003).
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New Laws and Rulemaking: Spam, Deceptive
Marketing Tactics, Mousetrapping
“Recovering Hearts”
Faith-based initiative
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Equip Church to help those who are sexually
broken through healing, deliverance and
restoration
Confession, Repentance, Accountability
“If my people, who are called by my name, will
humble themselves and pray and seek my
face and turn from their wicked ways, then
will I hear from heaven and will forgive their
sin and will heal their land.” 2 Chronicles 7:14
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THE GOOD NEWS
Preach gospel to poor
 Heal the broken-hearted
 Preach deliverance to the captives
 Recovery of sight to the blind
 Set at liberty them that are bruised
--Jesus, Luke 4:18
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Come Into the Light of God’s
Unconditional Love
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“Let he who is without sin cast the first
stone.” Jesus
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Allow those who are sexually broken to
come into the light without fear of
judgment, shame or public disgrace
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Victory is in the shed blood of Jesus
ROLE OF WORLD HOPE
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Partner with EIE
Internet Safety Public Awareness
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Educate leaders
Educate grassroots
Mobilize to action
Victims assistance/counseling
Spiritual Leadership
– Call church to prayer and repentance
– Healing and wholeness to sexually-broken
– Intercessory prayer
RESOURCES
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www.enough.org (Enough Is Enough)
www.protectkids.com
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Abbreviated version of Kids Online
Resources for parents, educators, government officials
Reporting cybercrime - CyberTipLine
Kids Online: Protecting Your Children in
Cyberspace
Sex Addiction Resource List
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