Posted on September 29th, 2009 by Stanley Holditch
The downturn in the economy has hit everyone hard, especially in rural areas like Russellville, Alabama.
Because of budget cuts, the local Russellville library almost had to stop offering Internet service to its patrons. The county mandated that the Internet connection be filtered, but there was no money in the budget to pay for the filters. [...]
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Posted on September 24th, 2009 by Stanley Holditch
It’s not often that tales of Internet predators have inspiring conclusions, so when we ran across this story we thought we would share it.
The story starts out with the telltale mistake that leads to such situations: a young girl, alone in her bedroom at night, with a computer in her room, chatting in an AOL [...]
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Posted on September 22nd, 2009 by Stanley Holditch
One of our customers in Tampa, Florida, recently appeared on WFLA-TV to talk about how Safe Eyes helps protects his daughter when she is online. One of the best points that Jason makes is that he isn’t worried about what his daughter does online, but he is worried about what everyone else is doing online.
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Posted on September 16th, 2009 by Stanley Holditch
Noted author and columnist Buzz McClain recently wrote 22 essential parenting tips for the Ft. Worth Star Telegram, and he made installing Safe Eyes his 22nd tip:
#22 Supervise their Internet use. You can block Web sites with inappropriate content on your home computer, but it seems to be a never-ending battle against a rising tide. [...]
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Posted on September 10th, 2009 by Stanley Holditch
A recent report by the Associated Press indicates that Sentry and Family Safe, two major parental control software brands, are selling data pulled directly from kids’ chats to businesses that want to use the information for tailoring marketing strategies towards children.
Apparently the companies sold data from chat logs through a separate data-mining service called [...]
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Posted on September 9th, 2009 by Stanley Holditch
A recent report by indicates that social networking sites are the most blocked category of site by employers. That means more employers are blocking social networking than are blocking shopping and weapons sites.
This isn’t surprising given that employees spend roughly 20% of their time at work surfing the web for non-work-related activities, and those statistics [...]
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Posted on September 8th, 2009 by Stanley Holditch
A recent study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health shows direct links between exposure to online pornography and increased sexual activity in teens, including a greater likelihood of high-risk sexual behavior.
The study out of Mount Sinai School of Medicine, conducted by Debra K. Braun-Corville, M.D., and Mary Rojas, Ph.D., surveyed youth between the ages [...]
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Posted on September 2nd, 2009 by Stanley Holditch
Robi Sonderegger, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized clinical psychologist who is increasing awareness all over the globe about the psychological harm inflicted by pornography.
We asked Dr. Robi, who has a strong background in developmental psychology, how to reconcile some of his findings with a study conducted in Switzerland which found no link between early exposure [...]
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