Freedom and protection: The big question on the internet

This is an article that is from the Head of Research Office of UNICEF that I found from Iceland. It discusses how difficult it is to protect children from online predators. I also found this link http://www.unicef.es/sites/www.unicef.es/files/Child_Safety_online_-_Global_challenges_and_strategies.pdf  it is UNICEF'S detailed guide on: Child Safety Online. Global challenges and strategies. I think it is important for parents to be aware of how to protect their children from predators online. This subject is so encompassing. We live in a global world. As we have seen in the media and stories I have shared on this blog, pedophiles are global as well. There has been stories from across the world on pedophile groups being arrested. The internet opened up a whole way for these scum to have access to our children. It is imperative that we educate our children on how to protect themselves on line. Right now a pedophile can be sitting in his home on his computer across the globe talking to your child on the internet. All for the purpose of his own desire. All from the safety of his home and anonymity of his software. IMO it all comes down to the software companies and whether or not they will step up and stop these predators from harming children. Rosie

Varies Gordon Alexander Head of Research Office of UNICEF

How can nations deal with sexual violence against children online without preventing access of children? This is the reverse problem which has not yet been able to answer satisfactorily, but now with a planned approach to preparatory work to separate the facts from the emotions - and even agitation - that have characterized the debate.

Agitation, however, to some extent justified. It is now believed that the world exists for 16,700 internet sites that display images of sexual violence against children. On the Internet there are millions of such images that show thousands of children. Age of the children for the violence will decrease and it also seems now three-quarters of children less than 10 years of age. Furthermore films ever more brutal and violent fuller.

 
Developing networks district made no crimes related to sexual violence and abuse, but has increased its scope and its ability to cause harm, as explained in a recent analysis report published in the daily safety of children on the Internet: Challenges and strategy on a global scale.

This new report from the Innocenti, UNICEF research, exceeds the scope of the risk, varies and ways to protect them. Along with dangers - footage that shows sexual assaults against children, grooming and bullying online - follows a unique and historic benefits for children in education, social interaction and recreation.

For children there are Cyberspace magical place to interact, develop friendships, explore the world and experience the adventure; site that allows them to expand the boundaries and take control of their lives. In the eyes of many parents is compromising network and misunderstood world marked by incomprehensible language of intimate relations with strangers and unhealthy sexual interest.

Kynslóðabilið is not a new phenomenon, but what makes the Internet different from another is how incredibly fast it develops and changes. PCs seem to already be obsolete, as children prefer access via smartphone, which gives them more freedom and even less control parents.

Criminals also take advantage of the constantly expanding access by virtue of growing broadband and mobile phone. The advent of broadband is a big factor when it comes to facilitating the implementation of sexual violence against children on the internet, because it allows the exchange of large documents, especially documents containing photographs and recordings. It has opened a new dimension for offenders in developing countries where Internet is still a novelty and spreads so rapidly that threatens it is difficult to keep track of the number of young people who use it, let alone realize the actual underlying risks.

In Brazil, for example, increasing the number of online child over 10 years of age by 75 percent in three years, up to 56 million users, and in 2009 used 80 percent of teenagers in Nepal Network. Although sub-Saharan Africa is still far behind, with 11 percent usage has been high relative growth, particularly via the internet café and mobile houses.

What solutions are available to them, from the UK to Benin?

The report Child Safety on the Internet: Challenges and strategy on a global scale, emphasis is placed on four of them. The priority objective is the empowerment of children, given that most children have a better knowledge of technology than their parents and are more likely to turn to their peers when there is a problem on the Internet.
Another factor - to abolish the immunity violent people - requires international cooperation in law enforcement and performing at a level that now exists in most countries. "From the perspective of law enforcement is the most important thing government can do to harmonize the legal framework," said Peter Davies, Chief Superintendent and Head of Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) in the UK. "People need to realize that it is likely that all major Internet research stretches across borders nations, and it happens too frequently to the lions in the way law enforcement agencies will savage take on the harm that the net result, because the laws in one country do not apply in another. "

Tip Davies rhymes with the results of the study. Of the 196 countries studied were only 45 of the legal framework was sufficient to fight crimes related images showing sexual violence against children.
The third factor identified in the article is to prevent the supply of and access to images showing sexual violence against children; anything that requires the cooperation network of companies and child-friendly Internet sites and equipment to block the sites. The industry has the capacity to develop and introduce new tools that make the Internet safer for children. Order may need incentives - market advantage for the party that provide consumers with better and safer options.

The fourth issue of this report is to support the survival of children exposed to violence on the Internet, which is no run works where violence is rarely reported and the children in question are not always perceived as violent.

Perhaps it will never be possible to eliminate all the dangers that exist online world. They are a big space evolving, growing and creative, and can therefore never been subject to the control needed to protect children completely. Such control is not desirable, since the absolute control would destroy the core network and the many benefits. But it should - and can be done - more.
 http://visir.is/frelsi-og-vernd--stora-spurningin-um-netid/article/2011712149991


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