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Youth, Pornography and the Internet
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* Publisher: National Academy Press
* Number Of Pages: 450
* Publication Date: 2002-09
* Sales Rank: 552654
* ISBN / ASIN: 0309082749
* EAN: 9780309082747
* Binding: Paperback
* Manufacturer: National Academy Press
* Studio: National Academy Press 
Book Description
Youth, pornography, and the Internet. The combination of these elements is a subject on which individuals from all walks of life--parents, teachers, librarians, school administrators, library board members, legislators, judges, and other concerned citizens--have thoughts and strong opinions. Those with products and services to sell are also interested in and concerned about the subject. Some from the online adult entertainment industry fear that efforts to restrict the access of children to certain kinds of sexually explicit material on the Internet will impinge on what they see as legitimate business opportunities to market their products and services to adults. Those with technology-based protection systems to sell hope to capitalize on what they see as a growing market for solutions to the problem, however that may be defined.
Views in this subject area are highly polarized. Because strongly held values are at stake, the political debate is heated, and often characterized by extreme views, inflammatory rhetoric, and half-truths. Against the backdrop of intense lobbying in the halls of Congress and many local school and library board meetings in communities across the country, a document assembling in one place the different dimensions and pros and cons of approaches that might be taken to address the problem can help to conduct the debate over "what to do" in a more informed manner.
Thus, one purpose of this report is to provide a reasonably complete and thorough treatment of the problem and potential solutions that airs all sides. In addition, different communities or groups of readers are likely to be interested in different aspects of this report.
Parents will be interested in its description and assessment of a reasonably comprehensive set of tools and strategies for protecting their children on the Internet from exposure to inappropriate sexually explicit material (and other inappropriate material for that matter), many of which can be deployed in their homes. Furthermore, to the extent that parents understand the advantages and disadvantages of these various tools and strategies, they can engage their legislators and local administrative bodies more effectively.
Adults responsible for children and youth in other settings--school, libraries, after-school programs, camps, and so on--will be interested in this description and assessment as well for classroom and other purposes, but also in the political and organizational issues that surround the use of these various tools and strategies. Those responsible for education broadly construed will also be attentive to the issues related to material that is improperly or incorrectly identified as inappropriate for children and youth.
The information technology (IT) sector is likely to be interested in finding business opportunities for helping parents and others deal with the issues as they see fit, while many commercial interests in the IT sector and in other corners are concerned about the possibility of regulation.
Law enforcement agencies may be interested in this report to help clarify their roles and responsibilities in both preventive and tactical operations, and may benefit from the report's overview about existing law in this area. The judiciary, especially at the local level, may find perspective and understanding that can be useful in trying and hearing cases touching on the subject matter of this report.
Policy makers will be interested in all of these dimensions of the issue, and must decide how to weigh them in their attempts to formulate appropriate policy. Further, much of this report points to legal, economic, technical, and social realities that affect how legislation and regulation might actually play out.
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