A Clear And Present Danger By Cathleen Cleaver Analysis

When we think of the types of abuse it is easier to imagine how this may happen in the real world. There are now significant risks of sexual and emotional abuse for children in the “Digital world”. This new term, ‘e-safety’, is concerned with the safeguarding of children and young people in the digital world and ensuring that they feel safe when accessing new technology.

“If you have to spy on your kids, something’s wrong,” says Michael Brody, a child psychiatrist. Is Juvenoia, the fear that the Internet is causing negative effect on children, really necessary? Many adults these days are concerned of teen safety on the Internet, thus proclaiming that monitoring usage of the Internet would benefit both the child and the parent. In the article, “The Undercover Parent”, Harlan Coben explains how all parents should use spyware on their teen’s devices to monitor Internet usage. After an extensive amount of research, I disagree with Coben’s claim. Spyware is not only unnecessary, but also expresses the message: “I don’t trust you.”

As the Internet developed, it brings a lot of benefits, such as getting information much quicker; however, it also brings problem. One problem that Internet brings to today’s society is children’s safety on virtual world; there are a lot of temptations attract kids on the Internet. This issue Coben discusses is a particularly controversial one because it’s hard for parents ignore the dangerous on the Internet; on the other hand, if parents surveillance kids’ privacy world, it’s really embarrassed for children. How could we solve this problem? What is a compromise way for both parents and children? Coben thinks parents should use spyware on the computer, but not surreptitious doing this; parents should tell

Every day teenagers use the internet, whether it’s on their phones or on the computers at school or at home. Their lives are practically centered around it. They’re connecting with each other on social media such as: Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, and even online video games, and this has is benefits, but it can also have some negative and possibly dangerous situations. The internet is not a safe haven for anyone or anything. In the article “The Undercover Parent” the author, Harlan Coben, makes the argument that spyware is alright to be used by parents on their kids computers as long as the parents are using the software responsibly. I agree with Coben’s statements because of his solid arguments of dangerous conversations, privacy, and bullying.

By restricting access and deterring inappropriate use. Children and young people still seem to experience some possible risks. Such as, contact with people not known to them and cyber-bullying. Which emphasises just two safeguarding issues derived from the national concerns highlighted from the e- safety policy. Therefore, to give a fuller picture of safeguarding issues more research would be beneficial. However, as stated by EUKGO (2014) not all contact young people have with people not already known to them is bad.so by restricting a child’s use of communication sites could result in lost opportunities for children and young people to socialise. Therefore, as suggested by Byron, (2014) approaching on-line risks the same as offline risks will take into consideration the bigger picture of how the internet affects the child when they are on-line and off line.as the quote from the 12 year old girl showed, in the EUKGO 2014 “It’s easier to say horrible stuff about people on [the Internet]. It got really horrible in Year 10. Lots of people were being bullying over [the Internet]. It gets brought into school. When friends do this, it’s horrible. It makes you really upset. You don’t want to go into school

    Ashcroft vs. ACLU, 00-1293, deals with a challenge to the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), which Congress passed in 1998. The law, which is the subject of this essay, attempts to protect minors from exposure to Internet pornography by requiring that commercial adult websites containing "indecent" material that is "harmful to minors" use age-verification mechanisms such as credit cards or adult identification numbers.(Child)

For example, the author said “it is far easier for a predator to troll chat rooms and MySpace and Facebook”, But text messages and cell phones don’t offer the anonymity and danger of the Internet they are usually one-on-one with someone you know. I agree with the author said that parents should put spyware on their kids phones and computers, it might keep the kids from a lot of trouble. Parents should not be nosey or trying to eavesdrop but should know what their kids are doing. There's a lot thing that happen not just on the interent but in real life, they could be smoking or meeting with someone they do not know. They could into serious trouble if there meeting up with someone they do not know, the person could be a drug dealer, he may be a pedophile, or he might just kidnap your

Adults should know that teenagers will get around any parental blocks, and may get around the spyware program. However, parents should still monitor their teenagers to keep them safe. Children also should know the difference between the internet and keeping things private, because once they post something on social media, everybody can see the post no matter if it is private or not. Coben then goes into the chat with pornography, and he suggests that teenagers can look up pornography and they will be just fine in life. Coben then points out, that parents monitoring is the parent's responsibility because they need to become aware of what kind of drugs or situations their children have gotten themselves into. Coben initiates that parents should watch what their children do on the internet in order to protect them from the dangers of the internet, and they should let the

“This legislation grew out of the fact that by 1998 roughly ten million American children had access to the Internet, and at the same time, studies indicated that children were unable to understand the potential effect of revealing their personal information online and parent failed to monitor their children’s use of the Internet.” (Koby)

The influence of language in framing an issue is demonstrated in the 2009 article, which does not mention the word paedophile, nor describes Newman as a predator. Instead, the report is framed to emphasis the unregulated nature of the internet. Newman created, “a cyberspace alter-ego” with, “no more substance than a dream,” moreover his “internet construct” was part of a “complex web of false identities” (Fewster, 2009). Thus, the focus is shifted to the uncontrollable, unknowable nature of the internet, rather than the ‘evilness’ of the perpetrator. The 2010 report also frames the internet as a problem by making the aspects of Newman’s online presence more salient or applicable in the mind of the reader. “The 50-year-old paedophile was logged onto another chat room when police arrived to arrest him in his house in Victoria”, had “up to 200 fictitious internet identities he had created to […] have sex with young girls”, and “after murdering, upon [his] return home [he] appeared to have continued on with [his] internet communications with young girls as if nothing has happened” (Dornin, 2010). The attribution of responsibility shifts expands to include both Newton’s unrepentance, and the unregulated nature of the internet.

"You can no more leave your children to explore the internet than you can leave them alone in Times Square in New York," states Lee Munsil, the executive director of the National Family Legal Foundation ("Internet Regulation").   This analogy between the Internet and Times Square is indeed quite accurate.   The Internet has a plethora of information and resources, however for children especially it can be quite dangerous if not monitored properly.   Most parents would opt not to leave their children alone in New York City so how could they leave them alone on the Internet?

Internet safety has been an extensive issue for children and adolescents since accuse to the Internet has become readily available in homes. With Internet use increasing at such rapid rates and a large proportion of adolescents using the Internet daily, the awareness of Internet safety should be addressed. The term Internet safety can be defined as “the knowledge of maximizing an individuals safety to private information, and self protection from using the Internet”. The impact and influence that the Internet has on adolescent life is far-reaching and research findings by Norris (2007) indicate that one-quarter of the American youth that go online at home, do so in the privacy of their rooms. Additionally, with the recent trend of wireless connections there has been a profound expansion in private Internet usage. The diverse means by which adolescents are using the Internet has become coupled with inherent risks of unsupervised and uneducated use.

Since the internet has been available in schools and libraries in this country, there has been a debate about what should be accessible to users, especially minors. The amount of information disseminated on the world wide web is vast, with some sources valuable for scholarly and personal research and entertainment, and some sources that contain material that is objectionable to some (ie. pornography, gambling, hate groups sites, violent materials). Some information potentially accessible on the internet such as child pornography and obscenity is strictly illegal and is not protected under the First Amendment. Some information available on the internet that may be valuable to some is at the same time perceived to be worthless or

The agencies employed by governments to police the web in order to protect the vulnerable have seen an increase in child pornography and online fraud. The speed at which information can be distributed and the number of people that can be reached attracts those that are intent on causing harm. The term “cybercrime” is becoming more widely used. The financial gains that can be made and the anonymity the internet can provide, make the virtual world of cyberspace a haven for criminals. Although the internet has huge benefits for information gathering and social networking, in the wrong hands it can cause harm to the vulnerable and criminals are able to vanish into the underground with the use of false identities that are hard to track online.

The Internet is a global network of vast information. With a few clicks, an individual can have access to up to 200 million web-sites filled with educational and recreational information. The Internet is not regulated in anyway (Carnegie Library 1). It is accessible throughout the entire world from the North to the South, to the early morning sunrise and dark sunsets. Different ethnicity and backgrounds come together linked upon this network resembling a connection of one body in unity. Sadly, issues arise creating concern for users, focusing particularly on minors. Pornography is one of the inappropriate materials on the Internet for minors. This material is harmful to young impressionable minds. Pornography is tearing and