Web Filter is a Household Necessity

Web Filter is a Household Necessity

Web Filter is a Household Necessity

It is rare today to find a 10 year old child who has NOT been exposed to pornography online. It is rare for a day to go by without another story in the paper of a family destroyed by debt accumulated in online gambling. Statistics tell us that the age of rapists is decreasing, there are more sexual abuse cases among teens, compulsive gambling is on the rise, and 50% of divorces are said to be somehow connected topornography addiction.

The Internet has changed us. The rules are no longer in place. A free-for-all has errupted in terms of what our kids, our partners and our spouses are exposed to. And no one is setting limits. Remember when a TV show was not even allowed to show a married couple in the same bed? When certain words could not be said on air? The definition of what the FCC deems acceptable for primetime has loosened up since 1950 but there are still clear restrictions. You can still feel relatively secure that if your child is watching TV after school, he is not going to be exposed to anything disturbing or completely age inappropriate.

Those rules do not apply online. On the Internet, your child can be exposed to anything anytime. But it's not just about being exposed to x-rated movies, which would be bad enough. It's about viewing content that no regulatory body has ever reviewed. It's about inviting underage teens to gamble. Its about being promised heaven and earth to enter personal information into a form. It's about being inside an environment in which there seems to be no rules or limits and anything goes.

Not only is this clearly dangerous for children and teenagers, but it also creates a very dangerous environment for adults. It requires discipline for any person to not look at select content that he can access with a click. When you sit down at a computer and know that just one click will take you to pornography, to a sports betting site or even to any activity that simply wastes your time, you are envoking some level of discipline from within. For some of us, it is natural. For others, for whatever reason, it is not natural and we will test the borders. So when there are NO borders, it can be very problematic.

Think about the SEC managers sitting at their desks looking at pornography while Wall Street crashed. They felt no accountability. They could not resists the temptation that sat on their desk. At a certain point, even when they knew they were taking a risk and faced consequences, they were already beyond the ability to exercise self-control.

All this, leads me to one conclusion. Today's Internet makes having aweb filter installed on every computer a necessity. You never can know who will be using a particular computer or what content may be accessed or even pushed to that computer. Furthermore, we are all susceptible to addiction when it comes to the Internet. Repeated exposure and the very nature of how our brains are being shaped by Internet use can make us highly vulnerable. I know very few people today who would not say, when asked, that they spend more time online than they probably should or need to.

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