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Why Filter Your Child's Internet Use?
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A. Fight Illegal Content          B. Protect Against Harmful Content         C. Raise Awareness

A. Fight Illegal and Harmful Content

Protect children from potentially harmful or illegal content that may impair...

• their moral or social development (Example: content that may have a traumatizing effect)
• their sexual development (Example: sexual content that may have a traumatizing effect)
• their emotional and mental development (Example: other content that may have a traumatizing effect)

Protect children from potentially harmful or illegal content that may instigate...

• damage to another (rape, harassment, etc.)
• damage to another's life (murder, terrorism, etc.)
• damage to another's rights (racism, sabotage, theft, etc.)
• damage to him/herself (drug abuse, gambling, meeting strangers, etc.)
• damage to his/her life (suicide, severe drug abuse, etc.)

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B. Protect Against Harmful Content
 

Could Impair a Child's Moral and Social Development:
Text or pictures with violent content that may traumatize children...

• Pictures of raw violence

• Blood scenes or scenes with seriously injured people

• Details of infliction of pain and/or injuries

• Pictures and stories about cruelty to animals

• Scenes of domestic abuse

• Scenes of violence of adults towards children

• Games with explicit injuries or violence against children

• Video's of real or faked murders or rape

• Physical punishment

Could Impair a Child's Sexual Development:

Text or pictures with sexual context that may have a traumatizing effect on children...

• Sex accompanied by pain, injury or humiliation

• Non-nude but sexually stimulated women or men

• Hardcore sex, ejaculation, erection, defecation, urination, bestiality, necrophilia

• Pictures or stories about acts or results of stimulating erogenous areas

• Games with hardcore sex or explicit sexual expressions

• Sexual insinuations toward children

• Requests to undress or display sexual behavior in front of a camera or webcam

Could Impair a Child's Emotional and Mental Development:

Other text or pictures that may have a traumatizing effect on children...

• Course language

• Indecent representations of children

• Scary sequences of scenes with threat and menace

• Separation and abandonment

• Scenes that confuse facts and fiction with respect to violence

• Misinterpretation of a specific theme leading to confusion

• Actual humiliation of children

Content that May Instigate Damage to Another
Text or pictures that may encourage children to commit acts of rape or harassment...

• Inspiring videos or content that show real or faked rape
• Games that stimulate rape or harassment
• Positioning rape, torture, sadistic violence or terrorization as "cool"
• Portrayal of violence as a normal solution to a problem
• Encouraging taking pleasure in pain
• Promoting anti-social behavior

Content that May Instigate Damage to Another's Life
Text or pictures that may encourage children to commit acts of murder or terrorism...

• Inspiring videos or content that show real or faked rape
• Stories that convince children problems can be solved by murder or mass murder
• Tips and tricks or do-it-yourself terrorism tools
• Games that simulate murder or terrorism
• Video of actual acts of terrorism
• Glamorization of weapons and knives

Content that May Instigate Damage to Another's Freedom and Rights
Text or pictures that may encourage children to commit acts of sabotage, theft, disclosure, or racism...

• Stories that claim theft is harmless
• Stories that claim theft from the rich or large companies is harmless to the rich or company
• Calls to children to commit sabotage
• Attempts to persuade children to divulge information about their parents
• Calls for hatred and racist humiliation or denigration
• Stories that claim other races are inferior
• Calls for public indecency (urinating, vandalism, mooning, streaking)
• Encouragement to judge people on their religion, birth, race, social background, etc.
• Tips and tricks for breaking into cars, buildings, etc.
• Tips and tricks for sabotage

Content that May Instigate Damage to the Child
Text or pictures that may encourage children to abuse drugs (including Alcohol and Tobacco), rendezvous, gamble...

• Stories that claim medicines or drugs are harmless
• Stories that position medicine or drug abuse as "cool"
• Condoning drug use and providing instructive detail
• Stories that convince children to solve their problems by abusing drugs
• Calls to join a religious cult
• Invitations to meet a person they only know remotely
• Invitations to gamble or bet

Content that May Instigate Damage to the Child's Life
Text or pictures that may encourage children to commit suicide or abortion...

• Stories that convince children to solve their problems by suicide
• Stories to solve unplanned pregnancy by self abortion
• Stories, pictures, videos of death races or other actions that can cause death
• Stores, pictures, videos that position fast driving as "cool"
• Games that promote techniques that can result in death or near death

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C. Raise Awareness

Kidsnet encourages people to become involved and knowledgeable of the issues involved in Parental Controls and Internet Filtering on the World Wide Web and Internet.  We provide free resources at our Parent Resources Web Page. 

 

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* Information for this Web page was supplied from the Kidsnet (BluePrint Data) website training manual for website reviewers and the Safer Internet Plus program from the European Union.