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Make the US Gov. Create A "Stop Child Pornography and Protect Children's Rights
LAW"
To: the President of the United States, Members of the U.S. Senate and Members
of the U.S. House of Representatives, see more...your Governor, Members of your
State Senate, Members of your State House, the President of the United States,
Members of the U.S. Senate and Members of the U.S. House of Representatives

Started by: Darin Williamson

Pedophiles use the Internet to hunt down sexually explicit images of children
and other illegal images. If we could reduce the images that are being
distributed and downloaded dramatically it would reduce child crimes in the US
and possibly help reduce them throughout the world. We as American citizens are
proposing that the US government create a law




a) mandating that all Internet Service Providers, public and private, to
install filters to filter out child pornography



b) To keep track of all child porn and related sites to be blocked by
these filters in a data base and require these filters to update themselves
automatically every 7 days or reasonable time frame.



c) Make law enforcement responsible for reporting and adding new sites
that have been detected to the data base



d) mandating that all Internet Service Providers, public and private, to
report all child pornography related issues on their network to authorities and
mandate them to release all information about the person that committed the
crime which would mean making and amendment to the Privacy Act of 1974 to force
them to be able release that info.



This filter would block all known and future recognized child pornography sites
and related sites. It would allow all other non-illegal websites. The US
government would be required to keep a database of all child porn and related
sites to be blocked by these filters and require these filters to update
themselves automatically every 7 days or reasonable time frame. They would also
be responsible for adding new sites that have been detected. For example,
Australia has a similar filtration system. The Australian government requires
that all of its citizens to have filtering software or install a filter to block
child pornography sites and they block all pornographic sites that are not
rated. Those sites are stored in a database created by the ACMA



This filter would also help reduce the amount of children being molested for
photographs. Someone is committing a crime during the creation of these images
and hurting our children. It would also drastically reduce the amount of sex
offenders that have accidentally downloaded child pornography. It would cut
down on court costs and jail time for the offenders and would reduce tax
dollars. This would allow more funding to help the government set up counseling
centers for victims and go after the people committing the crimes against
children or other related or unrelated issues. Reported cases of child sexual
abuse reached epidemic proportions, with a reported 322 percent increase from
1980 to 1990. (Source: Sorensen & Snow, 1991) Before 1980 child pornography was
almost non-existent, since the explosion of the Internet the amount of child
pornography is staggering. The main way to solve a dilemma is to determine the
root cause. If the root cause were eliminated then the issue would take care of
itself. The root cause of child pornography is the Internet and we need cut it
off their distribution source.



There are people that think that this would be unconstitutional. How would
blocking just the material that is illegal in the US and is hurting our children
but allowing everything else violate any amendment to the constitution? The
images of the children are taking away their rights so why would anyone have the
"Right" under the constitution to view those illegal images. Our children have
the right to be protected. Also, how could the constitution protect this type
of obscene material to be freely traded and downloaded by anyone who lives in
the US? And possibly viewed by your own children. The United States customs are
already manually filtering out obscene and illegal materials that come into the
United States. The US does not allow drugs to come into the country then why
should they allow child porn.

Let's eliminate the ease of the crimes against children and stop fueling the
people that want to view these images. Pedophiles are not born pedophiles.
Child pornography helps create pedophiles out of people that would not normally
be one. That would reduce Pedophiles wanting to produce the images and
committing crimes against our children. Remember our children are the future!
Let's all make the government protect them. Please fill in your name in the
spot in the letter below before you sign the petition!!!!

1.. This petition ends on Dec 10.


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