by Justin Hart
I like to start these posts with some positive news:
MySpaceMySpace has agreed with the
50-some-odd Attorney Generals who were knocking at their door:
time to get serious about online predators.
You might recall last year a news story where over 10,000 sexual predators were found to have a profile on MySpace. This is not a pretty site.
Fortunately, MySpace has agreed to basic identity checks and age verification to
avoid ugly incidents. Other points of the agreement include:
- Allow parents to submit children's e-mail addresses to MySpace to prevent anyone from misusing the addresses to set up profiles
- Make the default setting "private" for 16- and 17-year-old users
- Respond within 72 hours to complaints about inappropriate content and devote more staff and resources to classify photographs and discussion groups
- Strengthen software to find underage users
- Create a high school section for users under 18 years old
My guess is that other social networking sites will follow suit. Facebook is currently surpassing MySpace on sign-ups.
Arm yourself with our free Facebook guide to protect your kids on this popular site.
The results of addiction
If you haven't noticed already we've redesigned the
HerStoryLives.com website. The stories told there are both
eye-opening and
inspiring. The site is a place to share the tragedies and successes that women have experienced in their lives around pornography addiction. The site allows women to
anonymously share these stories.
Here's one story you must read: a stark confession of a
teenage addict and his road to recovery.
Porn Taxes
A state senator from Pennsylvania
is proposing a tax on the production and distribution of pornography.
We applaud her efforts.
China cracks down
China has begun to clean up its image before the Olympics opens its doors:
China's authorities shut down 44,000 domestic websites and homepages and arrested 868 people while investigating 524 criminal cases in a campaign against Internet pornography last year, a national teleconference has heard. Another 1,911 people involved in 1,609 Internet pornography activities were penalized, while the authorities canceled more than 440,000 pornographic messages online.
I'm worried about what happens to those arrested but I applaud their efforts. Note: North Korea is still the largest producer of pornography from what I understand.
The Family Friendly Airwaves
There's a battle afoot to determine what happens with the next band of wireless communications
. One group,
the Family Research Council, wants to use this spectrum for family friendly communications.
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Share Your Story
This young woman spent most of her adult years in denial knowing that her husband was sorely addicted with pornogaphy. She was determined to somehow effect a change. She Did. Come back soon to read about her story. Do you have a story to tell?
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