Children can easily access pornography on the Internet, which is legally restricted to adults. Also, children can easily access obscene materials, which are illegal, even for adults in the United States. Children can be exposed to this content on accident and can also receive links to adult sites. The presence of child pornography on the Internet is a disturbing and growing phenomenon. Child pornography is illegal in this country and lately we see people distributing this trash all over the Web.

The government doesn’t want to take action because they fear that it will effect this new medium of information. It also doesn’t want to

Another concern of most parents is pedophiles, which are people who look to exploit children sexually over the World Wide Web. Persons involved in the production of child pornography use whatever equipment they have available. That ranges from "instant cameras" and video equipment to the latest computer hardware that allows them to generate child pornographic computer images from magazines, pictures, and videotape. When it comes to sex parents try to keep a hand over their children’s eyes. Where there is pornography there is an open doorway for pedophiles. These pedophiles disguise themselves so they can talk to children. “Pedophiles have easy access to children online through chat rooms and instant messaging. The easy availability of pornography that attracts minors, gives pedophiles even greater access” (Kolbert, Mettger 4). This is a major concern for parents who have young children. Parents have been struggling with the fight to keep pornography off their children’s computers.

“ The widespread use of the Internet to distribute pornography in general, and child pornography in particular, the ease with which computerized images can be transferred electronically and downloaded, and the difficulty of identifying and apprehending actual users led to calls for legislation to specifically deal with child pornography on the Internet” (Bol 2).

There have been many incidents with people being caught with a number of child pornography images on their computers. In one case a pedophile was “advertising himself as a lice-removal specialist who would spray children for lice, a

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