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TABLE 14.1 | Youth, Pornography, and the Internet | Dick Thornburgh and Herbert S. Lin, Editors | Committee to Study Tools and Strategies for Protecting Kids from Pornography and Their Applicability to Other Inappropriate Internet Content | Computer Science and Telecommunications Board | National Research Council
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Table 14.1 An illustration of mutual reinforcement
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Impact on suppliers of inappropriate material |
Impact on potential consumers of inappropriate material |
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| Social/Educational Strategies |
Business decisions and ethics (e.g., ISPs can choose to refrain from carrying USENET newsgroups with a large amount of child pornography) |
Teach children to make choices to stay away and to target searches more precisely to reduce chances of inadvertent exposure; teach parents how to educate their children about these strategies and to monitor what their children are doing online. |
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| Technology-based Tools |
Labeling material so that parents and others can easily ascertain the appropriateness of that material for their children |
Help guide children to appropriate sites and help to prevent access to inappropriate sites, consistent with parental values and preferences |
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| Public Policy |
Shape the environment by reducing deceptive practices (e.g., mousetrapping, spam, capturing of misspelled web sites) |
Provide support for social and educational strategies (e.g., new standards of learning for K-12, outreach to parents to educate them about the Internet) |
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