1. family and parenting
2. children

CCNA ANNUAL
CONVENTION
INTERNET DANGERS
AND
SOLUTIONS
Prepared by Donna Rice Hughes
(Presentation Copyrighted)
September 1, 2001
Overview
Internet Dangers (vs. Benefits)
 Access to Pornography
 Cyber-Sex & Addiction
 Pedophiles’ Access to Children
 An Overview of Preventative Solutions
 Recovery and Healing
 Interceding for the Body of Christ
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INTERNET ACCESS
*57 million Americans have Internet access (MSNBC, 2000)
*17 million youth ages 12-17 years online in 1998 &
expected to grow to more than 42 million by 2003
(Time Magazine May 10, 1999)
*95% of parents surveyed have Internet access at
home
(FamilyPC Survey, 2000)
INTERNET DANGERS
(A tool used for good or evil)
1.Free and easy access to inappropriate and illegal content in
homes, schools, libraries, businesses and churches:
-Pornography (child porn, obscenity, harmful to
minors)
-Violence
-Bomb-making
-Hate speech
2. Predators have easy and anonymous access to unsuspecting
kids
THE CYBERSEX INDUSTRY
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Online pornography is the first consistently
successful e-commerce product (C-net, 4/28/99)
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Forbes Magazine reports Internet porn at $1.5
billion (Forbes, 6/14/99)
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Commercial porn sites post free “teaser” images to
entice the viewer
UNINTENTIONAL ACCESS
•Misspelled Words- (shareware vs. sharware)
•Innocent Searches- (toys, boys, pets, etc)
•Stealth Sites- (whitehouse.com; coffeebeansupply.com;
teenagershideout.com; http://clothingcatalog.com;
watersports.com)
•Brand Name Misuse (Disney, Nintendo, Barbie, Levis, etc)
•Unsolicited E-mail- 30% of all spam is from pornographers
•Chat Rooms & Instant Messages
Pornographer’s Use of Brand
Names
•
26 popular children’s characters, such as
Pokemon, My Little Pony & Action Man, revealed
thousands of links to porn sites
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30% were hard-core (Envisional 2000)
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25% of porn sites are estimated to use popular
brand names in search engine magnets, metatags
and links- Disney, Nintendo, and Barbie (Cyveillance
Survey, 1999)
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COFFEEBEANSUPPLY.COM
Free Teaser Images in each Category
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Animal; stories; gay; anal;
www.sex.com; oral;alt.sex; sex.com;
teen; pictures; gals; pics; chicks;
indian; black; with animals;
****;stories; interracial; pictures; hot;
pics; lesbian; group; hardcore; asian;
adult; cartoon; dog; live; phone;
preteen; teenage; etc
YAHOO! and CHILD PORN
Yahoo’s Clubs, Members Directories and
Geocities sites host child porn and
encourage child sex abusers
 Yahoo! Family Incest Club
 Yahoo! Rape Club
 Yahoo! Incest Directory
 Yahoo! Child Pornography Crimes
Directory
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... STATISTICS
•
1 in 4 youth ages 10-17 had unwanted
exposure to porn in the last year (Online Victimization,
NCMEC, June 2000)
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62% of parents are unaware that their
children had accessed objectionable sites
(Yankelovitch Partner Survey, 9/30/99)
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Mouse-trapping
HARMS
*Affects attitudes, choices and behavior
*Demeans children, women and men
*Counterfeit for love, intimacy & commitment
*Tool of Satan to distort God’s plan for sexual
intimacy
CYBER-SEX COMPULSIONS
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MSNBC/Stanford/Duquesne Study, 2000
– 60% of all web-site visits are sexual in nature
– Sex is the # 1 searched word online
– 25 million Americans visit cyber-sex sites
between 1-10 hours per week. Another 4.7
million in excess of 11 hours per week.
MSNBC/Stanford/Duquesne Study, Washington Times 1/26/ 00)
Men & Women Keep Cyber-Sex
Habit Secret- 70%
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WOMEN
– Favor chat rooms 2X
more than men
– Slightly lower rate of
sexually compulsive
Internet behavior
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MEN
– Favor visual erotica 2X
more than women
STUDENTS & CYBERSEX
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Students were most at risk for cybersex
compulsions
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Due to a combination of increased access to
computers, more private leisure time, &
developmental stage characterized by increased
sexual awareness & experimentation.
(All stats from MSNBC/Stanford/Duquesne Study, 2000)
CYBER-SEX & CHRISTIANS
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17.8% of born-again Christians have visited a
pornographic website (Focus, March 2000)
1 in 7 calls for Focus’ Pastoral Care Line is about
Internet porn (Focus, March 2000)
51% of pastors say cyber-porn is a possible
temptation. 37% say it is a current struggle (Christianity
Today, Leadership Survey,12/2001)
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4 in 10 pastors have visited a porn site (Christianity Today,
Leadership Survey,12/2001)
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None are immune, “If you think you can’t fall into
sexual sin, then you’re godlier than David,
stronger than Samson, and wiser than Solomon.”
(Pastor Bill Perkins)
Stages of Sex Addiction
Stages of Sex Addiction
-Objectification
-Desensitization
-Addiction (drug of choice; skinner box effect)
-Acting out (public safety issue)
Levels of Sex Addiction
1-Fantasy, Pornography, Masturbation
 2-Live Porn, Fetishes, Affairs
 3-Minor Criminal Offenses, Prostitution,
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Voyeurism, Exhibitionism
 4-Severe Legal Consequences,
Molestation, Incest, Rape
– (“When Sex Becomes An Addiction”, Stephen Arterburn)
MARKS OF ADDICTIVE SEX
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Addictive Sex is:
– Done in Isolation
– Secretive
– Devoid of Intimacy
– Victimizing
– Ends in Despair
PREDATORS ONLINE
•Pedophiles’ & Predators’ Anonymous Access to Children
•Easy Access to Child Pornography
•Virtual Validation
•Virtual Molestation
•Trade Secrets & Teaching Tools
• Avoidance of Law Enforcement Detection
Child Pornography
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345% increase in child pornography sites between
2/2001 - 7/2001 (N2H2 press release, 8/01)
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New child porn sites at rate of 8/day (N2H2 press release, 8/01)
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There are in excess of 40,000 individual URLs
containing child pornography, pedophilia and propedophilia content. (Safeguarding Our Children- United Mothers & CyberAngels
“Our Kids In Danger List”, 2000.)
Online Victimization: A Report
on the Nation’s Youth
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1 in 5 received sexual solicitation or approach in
last year
1 in 33 received AGGRESSIVE sexual solicitation (Asked to meet, called them via phone, sent mail,
money or gifts)
25% of youth who received sexual solicitation told a
parent
Less than 10% of sexual solicitation and 3%
unwanted porn exposure reported the incident to
authorities
(Sample of 1,501 youth ages 1-17 who use Internet regularly)
Who are the perpetrators?
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Juveniles
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48% of overall solicitations
48% of aggressive solicitations
Adult solicitors
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Most of the “adult” solicitors were ages 1825
24% of solicitations
34% of aggressive solicitations
TOOL OF TODAY’S
PEDOPHILE
• 1 in 4 kids participate in Real Time Chat
(FamilyPC Survey, 2000)
• 13 million youth use Instant Messaging
(Pew Study reported in JAMA, 6/01)
• 89 % of sexual solicitations were made in
either Chat rooms or Instant Messages (Pew
Study reported in JAMA, 2001)
PORNOGRAPHY- Tool used by
Pedophiles
to arouse the child,
 to lower the child’s inhibitions,
 to demonstrate to their victims what they
want them to do,
 to communicate that a particular sexual
activity is okay.
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PREVENTION:
THREE- PRONG SOLUTION
•A shared responsibility between the
Public- Parents, Schools, Libraries, Businesses,
Churches
Technology Industry
Legal Community- Law Enforcement & Public Policy
•Each provides an essential layer of protection
PUBLIC PRONG
ROLE OF PARENTS, TEACHERS, & LIBRARIANS
-Awareness, education and empowerment
-Safety Rules and Software tools- Both are essential,
one without the other is ineffective
-Schools and libraries must take appropriate measures
to protect kids online. Acceptable use policies must be
combined with filtering software. (CIPA passed 12/00)
HOME
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Parents are first line of defense, but can’t do it
alone
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1 in 2 parents don’t use protective software
(FamilyPC, 2000)
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58% prefer parental guidance instead of protective
software (SafeKids/NetFamilyNews, 2001)
PUBLIC LIBRARIES
-Public Libraries had 82 million Internet sessions- annual
porn incident rate of between 400,000 and 2 million (Dangerous
Access, 2000)
- The pedophile monitoring group PedoWatch.org has
confirmed that on-line pedophiles are telling each other to
use public libraries to download child pornography
(Lake Oswego, Oregon)
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7,000 porn sites accessed in 2 days in Chesterfield, Va’s 9
public libraries. Board of Supervisors voted to filter all
terminals (June 2001)
Filtering in Schools
90% of public schools are connected to the
Internet (President Bill Clinton, Democratic National Convention, 2000)
 1 in 4 parents think their child’s school is
using protective software (FamilyPC, 2000)
 75 % of schools use filtering (Consortium for School
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Networking, 2001)
SAFETY RULES
• Keep the computer in a public area and monitor
Internet use
• Spend time online with your children
• Know your child’s online friends and activities
• Teach your children never to give out personal
information such as their name, school, address,
phone number or picture
• Instruct your child never to plan a face-to-face
meeting with someone that they have met online
SAFETY RULES (CONTINUED)
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Do not allow your children to have an online
profile
Only let your children in chatrooms under your
close direct supervision
Only let your children use instant messaging with
people you know and approve
Utilize protective software tools
TECHNOLOGY PRONG
WHAT CAN THE TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY DO?
•Develop technological solutions
•Implement technological solutions
•Corporate family friendly policy
•Choose not to offer newsgroups offering child
pornography & obscenity
•Cooperate with law enforcement
TECHNOLOGY TOOLS
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Desktop solutions - filtering, monitoring
Server based filtering- (FamilyClick)
“Go lists/Suggest lists” - (Internet Kids & Family
Yellow Pages)
Closed white lists- Pre-approved sites
Safe Search Engines - (AJKids.com)
Content Rating - (ICRA)
Filtering solutions are not 100% effective
Server based
Real-time Scan
Multiple access levels
Daily Human Review
Mail Block
Filtered E-mail
Anti-Spam
Customer Support
Family
Click
Surf
Watch
Yes
Yes
6
Yes
Proprietary
Yes
Yes
9a-9p EST
No
No
On/off
Yes
No
Limited
No
9a-9p EST
Cyber
Sitter
No
No
On/off
Yes
No
Limited
No
8a-4p PT
$20/2 years
Cyber
Patrol
Net
Nanny
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
8a-6p CT
No
No
On/off
No
No
No
No
$2.95 per
minute
Acting Out
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11/98- 11-year-old Josh had been looking at graphic
violent porn on the Internet for 20 minutes
immediately before stabbing 8-year-old Maddie
Clifton to death.
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6/29/98- 13-year-old (boy) was in the Phoenix
Burton Barr Library viewing porn on the Internet.
He followed 4 year old into the bathroom and asked
the younger boy to give him oral sex. (Dangerous Access
2000)
LEGAL PRONG
GOVERNMENT & LAW ENFORCEMENT
•No Internet obscenity prosecutions under Reno
•Aggressive enforcement of current laws (child porn,
obscenity, child stalking laws)
•Federal, State, & Local cooperation
•Law enforcement training
•The public should not have to shoulder the burden of
protecting against illegal content and criminal activity
Operation Avalanche (August 6, 2001)
Largest online child porn ring busted
 250,000 subscribers
 Operated out of Fort Worth
 100 subscribers arrested
 Owner sentenced to 1,335 yrs
 DOJ, US Postal Inspector Service and
Dallas Police joint effort
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Legislation in the Courts
– Child Online Protection Act (COPA)-Adult verification
required on porn sites-ACLU, ALA challenge-enjoined
– Child Pornography Protection Act- Extend law to include
computer-generated child porn. Supreme Ct to hear Fall 2001
– Child Internet Protection Act (CIPA)-Requires Schools
& Libraries to filter-ACLU & ALA challenge
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New Laws and Rulemaking:
Spam, Deceptive Marketing Tactics,
Mousetrapping
RESOURCES- Equip the Saints
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FamilyClick.com
– Home
– Affinity partnership for churches
Kids Online: Protecting Your Children in
Cyberspace (English, Korean, Spanish)
Sex Addiction Resource List
www.protectkids.com
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Abbreviated version of Kids Online
Resources for parents, educators, gov’t officials
Resources for sex & pornography addiction
Reporting cybercrime
SPIRITUAL BATTLE
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Satan cannot create or procreate… attack on
human sexuality
Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but
against rulers, powers, forces of darkness &
spiritual forces of wickedness.Take up the full
armor of God to resist in the evil day and having
done everything to STAND FIRM. (Ephesians 6:1-19)
Greater is He who is in you, than he who is in the
world. (I John 4:4) Take back the ground.
Sexual Brokenness and Healing
Idolatry- worship of body and sexual organs
 Confession, Repentance, Accountability
(2 Chron. 7:14)
 Strongholds- deal with original woundedness and
lies.
 “For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal,
but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds,
casting down arguments &every high thing that
exalts itself against the knowledge of God,
bringing every thought into captivity to the
obedience of Christ,”2 Cor. 10:4
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Challenge
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Deal with issue in our own lives and family. Prevention and/Deliverance/ Restoration
Encourage prevention- Rules and Tools
Minister to others in the body who are struggling.
(1 Cor. 12:26, If one member suffers, all suffer…)
Minister to spouses
Intercede for the Body of Christ-Stand in the Gap