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A New Strategy For Porn Websites
By Administrator | October 13, 2005
Page views. Its all about page views. Some junk e-mails really only want you to go and “unsubscribe” so the advertisers listed on the side pay them a few pennies each page view. I hear this is the new way web site owners are getting paid. Some just for getting page views, and others for getting visitors to “click” on the adds. This is much like newspapers getting paid by advertisers for circulation. The higher the circulation the more expensive the advertisement. It is shocking but now just visiting a site reaps cash for the website owners.
I recently attended a seminar given by Robin Raskins (http://www.robinraskin.com/) where she explained that pornographers no longer want credit cards. They want page views. And she says they will stoop to nearly anything to get them. Even at a few pennies a view they can make thousands so they are out to aggressively lure your children, usually boys to their web sites. They don’t care about ages – 9 and 10 are fine. They don’t care about the personal devastation or development of your child or the future relational problems that are well documented side effects of pornography. All they care about is getting their few pennies for each page view.
According to Robin these sites don’t have a “brown wrapper” covering the naked parts because they are not asking you for a credit card to “come inside and get a look”. They start off with the hard-core pornography right from the front page and continue all through the site. Because it’s all about page views.
Robin stated that there are three ways to protect our children. First – the “low tech” way. She suggests we look in the web browser history and see where our children go. Also she suggests your computer be in a public place or where you can see the screen when you walk by. There are also the “medium tech” strategies. Using web browser settings and internet services where you can set up profiles that restrict certain content. (Unfortunately tech savvy children can circumvent both of the medium tech strategies). Her “high tech” method is to install a special program onto the computer that stops selected content and cannot be changed without a password. Such programs include NetNanny, Cyber Patrol, Cyber Sitter, Cyber Sentinel, etc. These programs are password protected and will shut down internet connections if closed through task manager. They are very difficult to outsmart.
One such program that I have used in my household for more than a year is BSafe Online. This program has been wonderful and we can set it up on 3 computers in our house! Now that I am aware of the aggressive pursuit of our children’s eyes I urge every parent to do the responsible thing and make sure you have a “high tech” way of protecting your child!
If you are interested in trying BSafe Online you can go to the site through this link. (If you were to sign up for the service in the next month our ministry gets a portion of your purchase price.) Click here to check out: BSAFEONLINE
Parents please – do something! I seriously believe this is too important to depend on the low or medium tech strategies.
Please let other parents know of these dangers. Feel free to recommend this blog entry to as many friends and family as you believe could benefit from this warning.
May God’s grace and peace be with you,
Mark Strohm, Jr.
Topics: From Mark, Parenting | 1 Comment »
November 1st, 2005 at 9:00 pm
[...] OK, I really don’t want to grind this into the ground, but I cannot emphasize enough, please begin to protect boys early! If you have cable TV, figure out how to “lock” certain stations and shows with certain ratings. If you have internet access, read my recent post (A New Strategy For Porn Websites) and make sure you are taking “high tech” protective measures! By all means get software to block pornography. It is much better to take these steps now and wonder if you really needed to than to find out your son or daughter has been taken captive to a sin that is controlling their life! [...]