This following link is a film that shows how kids/teenagers are easy to fall into internet traps, scams and so on, specially with chat rooms and social networks.
It's worth to watch!
http://www.novamov.com/video/cxh2fh1ffrjy6
This is the trailer of the movie:
This is a small film that shows what happens when your online life comes to your real life...
Creapy and scary isn't it???
SOME NEWS AND ARTICLES FOR MY RESEARCH
Underground Internet cafes will be targeted in a four-month crackdown designed to stop teenagers accessing harmful and violent content.
Internet bars located in rural areas, joint rural-urban areas, and locations surrounding middle and primary schools are the main targets of the campaign.
"Illegal Internet bars are harming left-behind rural teenagers that lack parental care because their parents are away trying to make a living in cities," Zhou Yongping, deputy director of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, said in a national teleconference yesterday.
"There is also a trend of more illegal Internet bars appearing in urban-rural joint areas and city communities."
The campaign will run from June 1 until Sept 30, with the participation of the administration, the ministries of public security, culture, and industry and information technology, as well as the civilization office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
Zhou said local authorities would confiscate facilities and equipment belonging to illegal businesses, instead of simply punishing violators with fines. Those found violating laws would also face criminal punishment.
Tao Ran, a medical expert on Internet addiction at Beijing's Military General Hospital, said illegal cafes lured many pupils and middle school students away from their studies.
They could access unhealthy content, including obscene and violent images and even information about gun sales and weapons, he said.
Tao welcomed the campaign but worried that it would only have an impact in the short term.
As part of the campaign, authorities will appeal for information from the public to help them find the illegal Internet bars, which are often hidden and are difficult to identify.
Phone numbers and e-mail addresses which people can contact with tip-offs would be published in middle and primary schools, city communities and shops in the countryside from next month.
"The overall general public will be mobilized to participate in the campaign," Zhou said.
Tao compared Internet bars that allow students to access harmful content to the recruiting of teenagers into prostitution and drug trafficking.
"It is an infringement on their spiritual world, and we have to give enough attention to bad influences on youngsters," he said.
"Legislation should stipulate heavier criminal punishment for those offering unhealthy online services," Tao said.
"Simply confiscating their earnings won't solve the problem as there are huge profits involved."
Rise in demand for outlets
The number of illegal Internet cafes is growing because of demand, the limited number of legal outlets, limited access to the Web and a lack of enforcement, Tao said.
Nanfang Daily newspaper reported yesterday that children were watching porn in a number of illegal Internet cafes in a local village in Longgang district of Shenzhen.
Local government agencies occasionally raid the premises and order all computers to be confiscated, but illegal operators often bribe authorities and ask for computers to be returned so the business can continue, said the report.
Longgang is a huge industrial area with more than 3 million migrant workers, and Internet bars are their main entertainment venues.
Official data show that the area has 256 legal Internet cafes with far fewer in remote industrial areas, the newspaper reported.
Illegal Internet bars make large profits because they have much lower costs compared to registered outlets.
Underground Internet bars also have poor quality computers, so even if they have many terminals the businesses are still cheaper to operate.
A national regulation released in 2004 requires the owners of registered Internet cafes to have a minimum of 1 million in the bank, 200 computers and an operating area of more than 300 sq m.
If you believe its sponsors, a new Illinois law will keep sex offenders from recruiting children on the Internet.
"If the predator is supposed to be a registered sex offender, they should keep their Internet distance as well as their physical distance," said sponsor Bill Brady, a Republican state senator, according to the Chicago Tribune. "The object is to protect innocent individuals on the Internet from sex offenders."
If that were its effect, this would be a laudable piece of legislation. But in reality, the state law is written so broadly, it would effectively prohibit registered sex offenders from using the Internet.
It says "social-networking Web sites" are off limits, and defines those as "an Internet Web site containing profile Web pages of the members of the Web site that include the names or nicknames of such members," or photographs, or any other personal information. Offenders must "refrain from accessing or using" such Web sites.
Unfortunately, the Illinois state legislature didn't seem to recognize that many popular Web sites--perhaps even the majority of the large ones--fall into those categories.
Google.com features user profiles, including name, photos and personal information. So do Yahoo.com, Amazon.com, geek site Slashdot.org, and aggregator site Digg.com.
Sites like Hulu.com, Netflix, and Pandora do, too, as do TV.com, MP3.com, and CNET.com. This overly broad scope makes the law vulnerable to a First Amendment challenge. (Those last three are our sister sites and are owned by CNET News publisher CBS Interactive.)
(It is surely coincidence that Bill Brady is a candidate for governor of Illinois, whose campaign biography says: "He fought for and passed legislation to protect children from sexual predators.")
Now, perhaps Brady's intent truly was to ban sex offenders from the Internet, although if that's true you wouldn't know it from the former developer and real estate agent public statements on the topic. Nor was it probably apparent to his colleagues in the state capitol, where the legislation was unanimously approved by both chambers--or to Gov. Pat Quinn, who signed it into law this week.
Like it or not, using Google, Yahoo, TV.com, and so on is part of modern life, and it's reasonable to hope that even sex offenders could be reintegrated into society rather than cordoned off from it and therefore more likely to relapse. One Justice Department release says that 5.3 percent of male sex offenders were rearrested within three years after their release from state prison.
Brady's legislation also does not distinguish between violent criminals who have served prison time for rape--and adults who are registered sex offenders because of youthful hijinks.
The Economist published two stories on this topic last week. One, called "America's Unjust Sex Laws," says: "Janet Allison was found guilty of being 'party to the crime of child molestation' because she let her 15-year-old daughter have sex with a boyfriend. The young couple later married. But Ms. Allison will spend the rest of her life publicly branded as a sex offender."
A second article tells the story of Wendy Whitaker, a 17-year-old high school student in Georgia, who preformed oral sex on a boy in her class. "Her classmate was three weeks shy of his 16th birthday. That made Ms. Whitaker a criminal. She was arrested and charged with sodomy, which in Georgia can refer to oral sex. She met her court-appointed lawyer five minutes before the hearing. He told her to plead guilty. She did not really understand what was going on, so she did as she was told," the magazine reported.
No wonder a Human Rights Watch report recommends a rethinking of U.S. laws in this area.
It would be one thing if Illinois' new law said "sex offenders shall not use the Internet to harm or seduce a minor," or language to that effect. Unfortunately, the man who would be governor of that state seems to be more interested in taking credit for enacting a law rather than ensuring the right law is enacted.
CNET Blog Network member Larry Magid has also weighed in on this case.
February 1 marked the beginning of a two-week campaign called Be Smart Online, which focuses on raising awareness among children aged 8 to 14 about the potential hazards lurking on social media and virtual entertainment worlds."Young people are socially inquisitive and it is only good if they can convey information about themselves and get information in return from the world," Malle Hallimäe, the coordinator of the campaign and a director at the Union for Child Welfare, said on ETV. "But of course it is important to know how to avoid putting yourself in a dangerous situation or violating the rights of others."
Sites with ads on the topic:
Children Can Learn Many Things on the Internet...Eek Naked Stuffed Animals! (3 Pictures Total)
Make the Internet a Safe Place by iG Parental Control
What I love most about this ad campaign, by iG Parental Control, is that it's cute, funny and a little wrong at the same time. I'll never look at my teddy bear the same way again.
VICTIM SUPPORT
FIND YOUR STRENGTH
Victims’ pain: You can read it in their faces
This excellent print campaign from the UK, launched last year, last month added a branded mini-flashmob in Manchester to demonstrate the lasting emotional trauma carried by crime victims
Show the world your real face.
On Sept. 18th, turn off your mobile device and get some real facetime
The Offlining, Inc. (www.offlininginc.com) initiative highlights America's ever-growing addiction to technology. Since its Father's Day launch, well over 10,000 people have taken the Offlining pledge to have No Device Dinners with their families. The co-founders — dynamic marketing duo,Mark DiMassimo and Eric Yaverbaum, who took a stance on "Lying in Advertising" for their Tappening campaign (to make tap water cool) — are now fearlessly treading into the territory of… "Religion in Advertising".
Download a single sexual image of a minor or sexually entice a minor online, and you have committed a federal crime. The decisions you make online have consequences which will last a lifetime. Investigators and police officers across the country are online 24 hours a day, seven days a week, searching for people who use the Internet to abuse children.
You may think the Internet gives you anonymity. You may think that if you never come in physical contact with a child you met online, you have done nothing illegal. You are wrong.
Exploiting a minor is a major offense, whether you “meant” to do it or not. You will ruin your life, the lives of the ones you love, and the life of an innocent, young stranger.
This website has been created in conjunction with the United States Department of Justice’s Project Safe Childhood (PSC) initiative and its PSC Internet safety partners INOBTR, iKeepSafe and the Hispanic Communications Network to put an end to the dangers facing children online by explaining the crimes and consequences that pertain to Internet Predators. This site also provides links to resources for predators and potential predators to discuss their individual situations and find the help they need to stop the abuse.
It's worth to watch!
http://www.novamov.com/video/cxh2fh1ffrjy6
This is the trailer of the movie:
This is a small film that shows what happens when your online life comes to your real life...
Creapy and scary isn't it???
SOME NEWS AND ARTICLES FOR MY RESEARCH
Underground Internet cafes will be targeted in a four-month crackdown designed to stop teenagers accessing harmful and violent content.
Internet bars located in rural areas, joint rural-urban areas, and locations surrounding middle and primary schools are the main targets of the campaign.
"Illegal Internet bars are harming left-behind rural teenagers that lack parental care because their parents are away trying to make a living in cities," Zhou Yongping, deputy director of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, said in a national teleconference yesterday.
"There is also a trend of more illegal Internet bars appearing in urban-rural joint areas and city communities."
The campaign will run from June 1 until Sept 30, with the participation of the administration, the ministries of public security, culture, and industry and information technology, as well as the civilization office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
Zhou said local authorities would confiscate facilities and equipment belonging to illegal businesses, instead of simply punishing violators with fines. Those found violating laws would also face criminal punishment.
Tao Ran, a medical expert on Internet addiction at Beijing's Military General Hospital, said illegal cafes lured many pupils and middle school students away from their studies.
They could access unhealthy content, including obscene and violent images and even information about gun sales and weapons, he said.
Tao welcomed the campaign but worried that it would only have an impact in the short term.
As part of the campaign, authorities will appeal for information from the public to help them find the illegal Internet bars, which are often hidden and are difficult to identify.
Phone numbers and e-mail addresses which people can contact with tip-offs would be published in middle and primary schools, city communities and shops in the countryside from next month.
"The overall general public will be mobilized to participate in the campaign," Zhou said.
Tao compared Internet bars that allow students to access harmful content to the recruiting of teenagers into prostitution and drug trafficking.
"It is an infringement on their spiritual world, and we have to give enough attention to bad influences on youngsters," he said.
"Legislation should stipulate heavier criminal punishment for those offering unhealthy online services," Tao said.
"Simply confiscating their earnings won't solve the problem as there are huge profits involved."
Rise in demand for outlets
The number of illegal Internet cafes is growing because of demand, the limited number of legal outlets, limited access to the Web and a lack of enforcement, Tao said.
Nanfang Daily newspaper reported yesterday that children were watching porn in a number of illegal Internet cafes in a local village in Longgang district of Shenzhen.
Local government agencies occasionally raid the premises and order all computers to be confiscated, but illegal operators often bribe authorities and ask for computers to be returned so the business can continue, said the report.
Longgang is a huge industrial area with more than 3 million migrant workers, and Internet bars are their main entertainment venues.
Official data show that the area has 256 legal Internet cafes with far fewer in remote industrial areas, the newspaper reported.
Illegal Internet bars make large profits because they have much lower costs compared to registered outlets.
Underground Internet bars also have poor quality computers, so even if they have many terminals the businesses are still cheaper to operate.
A national regulation released in 2004 requires the owners of registered Internet cafes to have a minimum of 1 million in the bank, 200 computers and an operating area of more than 300 sq m.
Should Illinois sex offenders be kicked off the Net?
"If the predator is supposed to be a registered sex offender, they should keep their Internet distance as well as their physical distance," said sponsor Bill Brady, a Republican state senator, according to the Chicago Tribune. "The object is to protect innocent individuals on the Internet from sex offenders."
If that were its effect, this would be a laudable piece of legislation. But in reality, the state law is written so broadly, it would effectively prohibit registered sex offenders from using the Internet.
It says "social-networking Web sites" are off limits, and defines those as "an Internet Web site containing profile Web pages of the members of the Web site that include the names or nicknames of such members," or photographs, or any other personal information. Offenders must "refrain from accessing or using" such Web sites.
Unfortunately, the Illinois state legislature didn't seem to recognize that many popular Web sites--perhaps even the majority of the large ones--fall into those categories.
Google.com features user profiles, including name, photos and personal information. So do Yahoo.com, Amazon.com, geek site Slashdot.org, and aggregator site Digg.com.
Sites like Hulu.com, Netflix, and Pandora do, too, as do TV.com, MP3.com, and CNET.com. This overly broad scope makes the law vulnerable to a First Amendment challenge. (Those last three are our sister sites and are owned by CNET News publisher CBS Interactive.)
(It is surely coincidence that Bill Brady is a candidate for governor of Illinois, whose campaign biography says: "He fought for and passed legislation to protect children from sexual predators.")
Now, perhaps Brady's intent truly was to ban sex offenders from the Internet, although if that's true you wouldn't know it from the former developer and real estate agent public statements on the topic. Nor was it probably apparent to his colleagues in the state capitol, where the legislation was unanimously approved by both chambers--or to Gov. Pat Quinn, who signed it into law this week.
Like it or not, using Google, Yahoo, TV.com, and so on is part of modern life, and it's reasonable to hope that even sex offenders could be reintegrated into society rather than cordoned off from it and therefore more likely to relapse. One Justice Department release says that 5.3 percent of male sex offenders were rearrested within three years after their release from state prison.
Brady's legislation also does not distinguish between violent criminals who have served prison time for rape--and adults who are registered sex offenders because of youthful hijinks.
The Economist published two stories on this topic last week. One, called "America's Unjust Sex Laws," says: "Janet Allison was found guilty of being 'party to the crime of child molestation' because she let her 15-year-old daughter have sex with a boyfriend. The young couple later married. But Ms. Allison will spend the rest of her life publicly branded as a sex offender."
A second article tells the story of Wendy Whitaker, a 17-year-old high school student in Georgia, who preformed oral sex on a boy in her class. "Her classmate was three weeks shy of his 16th birthday. That made Ms. Whitaker a criminal. She was arrested and charged with sodomy, which in Georgia can refer to oral sex. She met her court-appointed lawyer five minutes before the hearing. He told her to plead guilty. She did not really understand what was going on, so she did as she was told," the magazine reported.
No wonder a Human Rights Watch report recommends a rethinking of U.S. laws in this area.
It would be one thing if Illinois' new law said "sex offenders shall not use the Internet to harm or seduce a minor," or language to that effect. Unfortunately, the man who would be governor of that state seems to be more interested in taking credit for enacting a law rather than ensuring the right law is enacted.
CNET Blog Network member Larry Magid has also weighed in on this case.
February 1 marked the beginning of a two-week campaign called Be Smart Online, which focuses on raising awareness among children aged 8 to 14 about the potential hazards lurking on social media and virtual entertainment worlds.
Ilvi Pere, the training and publicity director for the campaign, said a survey has shown that Estonian children are among the most wired in Europe and thus more susceptible. Pere, who deals with information security at the Tiger Leap Foundation, said that the rate of cyberbullying is twice above the EU average among Estonian and Romanian children.
Hallimäe said the project will encourage parents and children to talk more about the internet's dangers. Prohibitions are generally not as effective as illustrating the risks, she said.
A particular and surprising aspect in the case of younger Estonians, says media teacher Maria Murumaa - who defended a master's thesis on internet use among adolescents at the University of Tartu - is that they often do not think of other Estonians representing a potential threat, only foreigners.
Sites with ads on the topic:
Children Can Learn Many Things on the Internet...Eek Naked Stuffed Animals! (3 Pictures Total)
Make the Internet a Safe Place by iG Parental Control
What I love most about this ad campaign, by iG Parental Control, is that it's cute, funny and a little wrong at the same time. I'll never look at my teddy bear the same way again.
Advertising Agency: Neogama/BBH, São Paulo, Brazil
VICTIM SUPPORT
FIND YOUR STRENGTH
Victims’ pain: You can read it in their faces
This excellent print campaign from the UK, launched last year, last month added a branded mini-flashmob in Manchester to demonstrate the lasting emotional trauma carried by crime victims
Show the world your real face.
On Sept. 18th, turn off your mobile device and get some real facetime
The Offlining, Inc. (www.offlininginc.com) initiative highlights America's ever-growing addiction to technology. Since its Father's Day launch, well over 10,000 people have taken the Offlining pledge to have No Device Dinners with their families. The co-founders — dynamic marketing duo,Mark DiMassimo and Eric Yaverbaum, who took a stance on "Lying in Advertising" for their Tappening campaign (to make tap water cool) — are now fearlessly treading into the territory of… "Religion in Advertising".
Download a single sexual image of a minor or sexually entice a minor online, and you have committed a federal crime. The decisions you make online have consequences which will last a lifetime. Investigators and police officers across the country are online 24 hours a day, seven days a week, searching for people who use the Internet to abuse children.
You may think the Internet gives you anonymity. You may think that if you never come in physical contact with a child you met online, you have done nothing illegal. You are wrong.
Exploiting a minor is a major offense, whether you “meant” to do it or not. You will ruin your life, the lives of the ones you love, and the life of an innocent, young stranger.
This website has been created in conjunction with the United States Department of Justice’s Project Safe Childhood (PSC) initiative and its PSC Internet safety partners INOBTR, iKeepSafe and the Hispanic Communications Network to put an end to the dangers facing children online by explaining the crimes and consequences that pertain to Internet Predators. This site also provides links to resources for predators and potential predators to discuss their individual situations and find the help they need to stop the abuse.
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