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WHITE HOUSE BRIEFING

WHITE HOUSE BRIEFING INTERNET PORNOGRAPHY & PREDATORS Prepared by Donna Rice Hughes for First Lady Laura Bush’s Staff (Presentation copyrighted) August 9, 2001 Overview Internet Dangers (vs. Benefits) Cyber-Sex & Addiction Access to Inappropriate Material

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WHITE HOUSE BRIEFING

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  1. WHITE HOUSE BRIEFING INTERNET PORNOGRAPHY & PREDATORS Preparedby Donna Rice Hughes for First Lady Laura Bush’s Staff (Presentation copyrighted) August 9, 2001

  2. Overview • Internet Dangers (vs. Benefits) • Cyber-Sex & Addiction • Access to Inappropriate Material • Pedophiles’ Access to Children • An Overview of Solutions

  3. YOUTH INTERNET ACCESS • 17 million youth ages 12-17 years online in 1998 & expected to grow to more than 42 million by 2003 (Time Magazine May 10, 1999) • 1 in 4 kids participate in Real Time Chat (FamilyPC Survey, 2000) • 13 million youth use Instant Messaging(Pew 6/01) • 95% of parents surveyed have Internet access at home • (FamilyPC Survey, 2000)

  4. INTERNET DANGERS (A tool used for good or evil) 1.Free and easy access to inappropriate and illegal content in homes, schools and libraries: -Pornography (child porn, obscenity, harmful to minors) -Violence -Bomb-making -Hate speech 2. Predators have easy and anonymous access to unsuspecting kids

  5. THE CYBERSEX INDUSTRY • Online pornography is the first consistently successful e-commerce product (C-net, 4/28/99) • Forbes Magazine reports Internet porn at $1.5 billion (Forbes, 6/14/99) • Commercial porn sites post free “teaser” images to entice the viewer

  6. CYBER-SEX • MSNBC/Stanford/Duquesne Study, 2000 • 60% of all web-site visits are sexual in nature • Sex is the # 1 searched word online • 25 million Americans visit cyber-sex sites between 1-10 hours per week. Another 4.7 million in excess of 11 hours per week. MSNBC/Stanford/Duquesne Study, Washington Times 1/26/ 00)

  7. STUDENTS & CYBERSEX • Students were most at risk for cybersex compulsions • Due to a combination of increased access to computers, more private leisure time, & developmental stage characterized by increased sexual awareness & experimentation. (All stats from MSNBC/Stanford/Duquesne Study, 2000)

  8. UNINTENTIONAL ACCESS • Misspelled Words- (shareware vs. sharware) • Innocent Searches- (toys, boys, pets, etc) • Stealth Sites- (whitehouse.com; coffeebeansupply.com; teenagershideout.com; http://clothingcatalog.com; watersports.com) • Brand Name Misuse (Disney, Nintendo, Barbie, Levis, etc) • Unsolicited E-mail- 30% of all spam is from pornographers • Chat Rooms & Instant Messages

  9. Pornographer’s Use of Brand Names • 25% of porn sites are estimated to use popular brand names in search engine magnets, metatags and links- Disney, Nintendo, and Barbie(Cyveillance Survey, 1999) • 26 popular children’s characters, such as Pokemon, My Little Pony & Action Man, revealed thousands of links to porn sites • 30% were hard-core (Envisional 2000)

  10. ... STATISTICS • 1 in 4 youth ages 10-17 had unwanted exposure to porn in the last year (Online Victimization, NCMEC, June 2000) • 62% of parents are unaware that their children had accessed objectionable sites(Yankelovitch Partner Survey, 9/30/99) • Mouse-trapping

  11. COFFEEBEANSUPPLY.COMFree Teaser Images in each Category • Animal; stories;gay; anal;www.sex.com;oral;alt.sex; sex.com;teen; pictures; gals; pics;chicks; indian;black;with animals; fuck; stories;interracial;pictures; hot; pics; lesbian;group; hardcore;asian;adult;cartoon;dog;live; phone; preteen; teenage; etc

  12. YAHOO! and CHILD PORN • Yahoo’s Clubs, Members Directories and Geocities sites host child porn and encourage child sex abusers • Yahoo! Family Incest Club • Yahoo! Rape Club • Yahoo! Incest Directory • Yahoo! Child Pornography Crimes Directory

  13. HARMS • *Affects attitudes, choices and behavior • *Demeans children, women and men • *Cheap counterfeit for love, intimacy & commitment • *Stages of Sex Addiction • -Objectification • -Desensitization • -Addiction (drug of choice; skinner box effect) • -Acting out (public safety issue)

  14. PREDATORS ONLINE • Pedophiles’ & Predators’ Anonymous Access to Children • Easy Access to Child Pornography • Virtual Validation • Virtual Molestation • Trade Secrets & Teaching Tools • Avoidance of Law Enforcement Detection

  15. Child Pornography • 345% increase in child pornography sites between 2/2001 - 7/2001(N2H2 press release, 8/01) • New child porn sites at rate of 8/day (N2H2 press release, 8/01) • There are in excess of 40,000 individual URLs containing child pornography, pedophilia and pro-pedophilia content.(Safeguarding Our Children- United Mothers & CyberAngels “Our Kids In Danger List”, 2000.)

  16. Online Victimization: A Report on the Nation’s Youth • 1 in 5 received sexual solicitation or approach in last year • 1 in 33 received AGGRESSIVE sexual solicitation -(Asked to meet, called them via phone, sent mail, money or gifts) • 25% of youth who received sexual solicitation told a parent • Less than 10% of sexual solicitation and 3% unwanted porn exposure reported the incident to authorities • (Sample of 1,501 youth ages 1-17 who use Internet regularly)

  17. Who are the perpetrators? • Juveniles- • 48% of overall solicitations • 48% of aggressive solicitations • Adult solicitors- • Most of the “adult” solicitors were ages 18-25 • 24% of solicitations • 34% of aggressive solicitations

  18. Innocent access

  19. PORNOGRAPHY- Tool used by Pedophiles • to arouse the child, • to lower the child’s inhibitions, • to demonstrate to their victims what they want them to do, • to communicate that a particular sexual activity is okay.

  20. THREE PRONG SOLUTION • A shared responsibility between the • Public- Parents, Schools, Libraries • Technology Industry • Legal Community- Law Enforcement & Public Policy • Each provides an essential layer of protection

  21. PUBLIC PRONG ROLE OF PARENTS, TEACHERS, & LIBRARIANS -Awareness, education and empowerment -Safety Rules and Software tools- Both are essential, one without the other is ineffective -Schools and libraries must take appropriate measures to protect kids online. Acceptable use policies must be combined with filtering software. (CIPA passed 12/00)

  22. HOME • Parents are first line of defense, but can’t do it alone • 1 in 2 parents don’t use protective software (FamilyPC, 2000) • 58% prefer parental guidance instead of protective software (SafeKids/NetFamilyNews, 2001)

  23. PUBLIC LIBRARIES -Public Libraries had 82 million Internet sessions- annual porn incident rate of between 400,000 and 2 million(Dangerous Access, 2000) - The pedophile monitoring group PedoWatch.org has confirmed that on-line pedophiles are telling each other to use public libraries to download child pornography (Lake Oswego, Oregon) - 7,000 porn sites accessed in 2 days in Chesterfield, Va’s 9 public libraries. Board of Supervisors voted to filter all terminals(June 2001)

  24. DANGEROUS ACCESS REPORT- Uncovering Internet Pornography in Public Libraries -Incident Reports & Patron Complaints # Child Accessing Pornography 472 Adult Accessing Pornography 962 Adult Exposing Children to Pornography 106 Adult Accessing Inappropriate Material 225 Attempted Molestation 5 Child Porn Being Accessed 41

  25. Filtering in Public Libraries • 3,711 Public Libraries offer filtering, increase of 121% between 1998 and 2000 • 1 in 4 Public Libraries offer filtering (National Academy of Library Science, 2000)

  26. Filtering in Schools • ASCD survey found 90% of educators favored filtering in schools(Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, “Education Leadership”, ASCD, Vol. 58, No. 8, May 2001) • 1 in 4 parents think their child’s school is using protective software(FamilyPC, 2000) • 30-50% of all schools use filtering technology (IDC, 2000) • 90% of public schools are connected to the Internet(President Bill Clinton, Democratic National Convention, 2000)

  27. TECHNOLOGY PRONG • WHAT CAN THE TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY DO? • Develop technological solutions • Implement technological solutions • Corporate family friendly policy • Choose not to offer newsgroups offering child pornography & obscenity • Cooperate with law enforcement

  28. TECHNOLOGY TOOLS • Desktop solutions - filtering, monitoring • Server based filtering- (FamilyClick) • “Go lists/Suggest lists” - (Internet Kids & Family Yellow Pages) • Closed white lists- Pre-approved sites • Safe Search Engines - (AJKids.com) • Content Rating - (ICRA) • Filtering solutions are not 100% effective

  29. Acting Out • 11/98- 11-year-old Josh had been looking at graphic violent porn on the Internet for 20 minutes immediately before stabbing 8-year-old Maddie Clifton to death. • 6/29/98- 13-year-old (boy) was in the Phoenix Burton Barr Library viewing porn on the Internet. He followed 4 year old into the bathroom and asked the younger boy to give him oral sex. (Dangerous Access 2000)

  30. LEGAL PRONG GOVERNMENT & LAW ENFORCEMENT • No Internet obscenity prosecutions under Reno • Aggressive enforcement of current laws (child porn, obscenity, child stalking laws) • Federal, State, & Local cooperation • Law enforcement training • International law enforcement cooperation • The public should not have to shoulder the burden of protecting against illegal content and criminal activity

  31. Operation Avalanche (August 6, 2001) • Largest online child porn ring busted • 250,000 subscribers • Operated out of Fort Worth • 100 subscribers arrested • Owner sentenced to 1,335 yrs • DOJ, US Postal Inspector Service and Dallas Police joint effort

  32. Legislation in the Courts • Child Online Protection Act (COPA)-Adult verification required on porn sites-ACLU, ALA challenge-enjoined • Child Pornography Protection Act- Extend law to include computer-generated child porn. Supreme Ct to hear Fall 2001 • Child Internet Protection Act (CIPA)-Requires Schools & Libraries to filter-ACLU & ALA challenge • New Laws and Rulemaking: Spam, Deceptive Marketing Tactics, Mousetrapping

  33. We Must Work Together to Safeguard Children & Families • A shared responsibility between the public, the technology industry and the legal community is essential. • COPA Commission recommendations included: • Aggressive law enforcement • A government sponsored national public awaremess and education campaign

  34. RESOURCES • FamilyClick.com • Kids Online: Protecting Your Children in Cyberspace (English, Korean, Spanish) • www.protectkids.com • Abbreviated version of Kids Online • Resources for parents, educators, gov’t officials • Resources for sex & pornography addiction • Reporting cybercrime

  35. For Consideration by the First Lady • Adopt Internet Safety Issue • Help Raise Public Awareness • Help Educate Parents, Grandparents, Teachers and Librarians • FOR THE SAKE OF THE CHILDREN THANK YOU, • Donna Rice Hughes- Internet Safety Advocate, Author, COPA Commissioner, FamilyClick Spokesperson

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