Apple and the iPhone

Apple has recently approved a new App for iTunes. By doing this, Apple is allowing parents to test the new parental control application on the iPhone.

The way to test the new parental control is for a mere $2 you can download pornography and then check to see if the parental controls blocks it or not on the iPhone. If it does block it, then the App disappears. However, the minute you turn off the parental controls, the pornography App reappears on the screen.

Be aware when you download the 3.0 software update that this feature is included.

This now opens an entirely new market to the adult entertainment industry to sell their product.

Please contact Apple and ask them to halt the sale of pornography.

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Truth about pornography addictions

In a recent training program at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Herbert Benson, M.D. addressed some of the effects of cybersex addictions.
"Most of the cases discussed, which covered hundreds of individuals in therapy, found that initially pornography is rewarding in terms of sexual desires. However, the research revealed that as the addiction increased most of the addicts involved in pornography develop a great distaste for the pornography itself, but are unable to release themselves from it because of the escalating crescendo of addictive patterns."

• Conclusive data was presented demonstrating "progressive use of pornography" "brings about impotency"
• "Progressive acting out of deviant sexual conduct. . causes people to abandon normal marital relations, including normal sexual relationships, in favor of indulging their severe addiction."
• Accepting and participating in addictive disorders reduces the "spirituality" of those individuals and the societies they live in.
• "With addictive disorders there is a loss of function in the prefrontal lobe of the brain as well as in the remaining portion of the frontal cortex"- causing "a diminished ability to think and concentrate."

(quotes generated from a synopsis of the lecture published by Dr. Dean Belnap, click on title to see his published notes.)

The truth is that pornography is an addictive substance with tremendous and terrible consequences for individuals and societies who embrace it.

If we said please. . . ?

Maybe if all of us in the U.S. who wanted a porn-free internet search engine, joined together and asked Google to provide a family friendly choice here, they would.. . ?. . .

At least they could. . . . .

'Internet giant Google promised Friday to work harder to eliminate pornography from its Chinese Web pages as state media reported authorities had shut down some of its search services.
"Google has continually taken measures against vulgar content, particularly material that is harmful to children, on the Internet in China," a statement by the company said.
"Google is currently stepping up its efforts in this regard." ' Breitbart.com , June 19

So- the technology is available.

It wouldn't infringe on "America's Free Speech" to offer the option of a "clean" search engine to those (families, schools, and businesses) who would gratefully choose it.

Bing

Bing is a new search engine recently launched by Microsoft. The major problem with Bing is that it has brought pornography directly into your home or office. Porn is no longer a few clicks away.

When you search on Bing, you no longer have to click to go to a different website to view porn. All you have to do is roll over the thumbnail image of the video on the video will begin to play snippets of the pornographic video.

Imagine the harmful effects if a child is searching on Bing and merely rolls over the image and instantly the child is watching a porn video.

This is completely unacceptable and irresponsible of Microsoft to launch a program such as this without a solution to block pornographic videos.

DO NOT USE BING AND ESPECIALLY DO NOT LET YOUR CHILDREN SEARCH ON BING!!

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June is National Internet Safety Month

Enough is Enough reminds us that June is National Internet Safety Month. Keep your children safe online this summer!
"Communication is key in protecting children from online exploitation. . . . Monitor children's Internet use: ask them what sites they visit and to show you any profiles they may have posted online." (http://www.enough.org/objects/Predators_Rules_of_Engagement2.pdf) Visit this link to learn other important ways you can keep your children safe online.