Protecting Kids from Porn: A Federal or Family Issue?
Sunday, May 1st, 2011
When 42 Senators agree on something, it behooves people in the U.S. to take notice.
Last week, 42 Senators agreed strongly enough that access to online pornography is a threat to our nation’s children and future that they signed a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder asking him to enforce federal obscenity laws and increase prosecutions of adult pornography.
42 is a significant number in the Senate because it is just 9 short of a majority, which would be all that would be needed to pass a bill. While it is highly unlikely that any new laws will be passed to further limit the spread of online pornography or bar minors from accessing it, it is not impossible. Other countries currently enacting or considering tight federal regulation of pornography include England, Australia, China, and India.
In the letter to Holder, the senators describe a Capitol Hill briefing that outlined how pornography has become “more harmful, addictive, and available” and is “typified by extreme violence against women.” Furthermore, they write that pornography consumption “can contribute to sexual harassment and sexual violence” and even “normalizes harm against children.”
Pornography, as it exists today, can no longer afford to be a politically polarized issue, as evidenced by Dianne Feinstein’s signature on the letter. Crusades against pornography in the past have typically been populated by the far-right, but the abundance and extremely graphic nature of today’s Internet pornography is being increasingly recognized as harmful by experts from all points on our political spectrum.
We of course could not agree more, which is why we have been working to put Safe Eyes in the hands of parents for almost a decade. We urge parents to not sit idly by thinking that the problem is too big for them to deal with, or delude themselves into thinking that pornography today even resembles the Playboy magazines from their childhood. Safe Eyes has proven to be one of the most effective tools at protecting kids from the threat pornography consumption poses to them, and its available for parents to use today.
42 Senators care enough about your kids to protect them from the real harms pornography can inflict. Do you?
Safe Eyes Parental Control Software recently received 4.5 stars out of 5 in a review by GetParentalControls.org, an independent site dedicated to reviewing the best parental control products.
