The issue of protecting children from having access to internet pornography is an everlasting and difficult problem. The main reason for this in my opinion was covered in the congressional hearing. It was mentioned that because of the growth of technology, stopping children from viewing internet pornography become even more difficult. The growth of the internet as a communication medium, allows pornography to be distributed to children easily. Thus developing filtering and blocking systems, increasing public awareness on this topic, passing a bill to combat pornography websites…etc are crucial in curbing access of pornography to the children. From a personal standpoint, I would not want my children having access to pornography at an early age, so this issue is a very important one to follow. Also what alarms me from the hearing was that millions and millions of tax payer’s dollars are being used on helping to combat access of internet pornography to children. The money is used to help improve the blocking and filtering system for spam and spy-ware. Increased convictions of sexual offenders are increasing at an alarming rate as the FBI and the Department of Justice are working together to convict these criminals. Together, viewing the sexual act may tie in hand in hand to committing these sexual acts, so it is very important to persecute these individuals. But the problem with the internet is that we cannot shut it off. Kids in this world today need the internet to succeed in their life. The best thing we can do is aware the public and let these individuals be alert for themselves.
