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Issue 16 - January 2012
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In this issue...
- Caught by a Predator
- Who Profits from the .XXX Domain?
- Navigating the New Year
- Newly Updated Internet Safety E-Book
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Caught By a Predator
Woman Speaks Out 10 Years After Her Abduction
By Luke Gilkerson
 His sweaty hand squeezed her hand tightly as they made the five-hour drive to his home, saying things like, "Shut up. Be good. The trunk's cleaned out for you." Terrified, 13-year-old Alicia Kozakiewicz wondered how she might escape or if she would live to see her family again. Finally, late that night, Scott Tyree arrived with his captive at his home in Herndon, Virginia. He escorted her to his cold basement. There she could see sadistic devices hanging on the wall. And over the next several days Tyree would rape her, beat her, and share images of his new sex slave to his buddies over the Internet. Read more... |
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| Who Profits from the .XXX Domain? |
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By Lisa Eldred The scene opens with provocatively dressed women popping balloons using their stiletto heels. A nerdy researcher asks them why they now use the .xxx domain.
"Trust me," says one woman. "It's a thing." The researcher turns to his busty assistant to leave. "Actually," she replies, "I'm going to stay." The ad for the new .xxx domain is unquestionably crass, but it also paints a surprising ideal. Those who want to be there can stay. If you don't, you know where you are and you can leave very easily. And on paper, it makes sense. After all, pushing porn toward one exclusive "adult" domain makes it easier to regulate and block. And there's some early success. When the .xxx domain registration opened to the public on December 6, 2011, over 55,000 domains were registered in the first 24 hours alone. Read more... |
| Navigating the New Year: Beating the Resolution Blues
Black Friday...Blue Monday?
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By Leigh Seger Yes, Blue Monday, the date for the "most depressing day of the year." Blue Monday is slated to arrive this year on Jan. 16. A date coined by Cliff Arnall, former researcher from Cardiff University, Blue Monday may help explain the angst many individuals feel as they begin a new year. The formula for determining this date is:  The factors include weather (W), debt (d), time since Christmas (T), time since failing our New Year's resolutions (Q), low motivational levels (M), and the feeling of a need to take action. Feel familiar? Read more... |
| Get the Newly Updated Internet Safety E-Book for Parents...and It's Free!
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The World Wide Web is the greatest invention since the printing press. Nothing else has so radically shaped culture, media, commerce, entertainment, and communication. But with these benefits also come great danger that all parents should know about.
Did you know...
- More than 1 in 8 web searches are for erotic content.
- 30% of 17-year-olds have received a sexually explicit picture or video through their cell phone or over the Internet.
- 20% of teens say their peers are "mostly unkind" to each other on social networks.
- 47% of sexual predators online are 20 years older than their victims.
- 40% of teens have seen pictures on sites like Facebook of their peers getting drunk, passed out, or using drugs.
- YouTube users upload the equivalent of 240,000
full-length films every week, all of which has to be monitored by YouTube viewers for their content.
As a parent, learn about these and many more statistics in the newly updated guide from Covenant Eyes, Parenting the Internet Generation: 7 Potential Threats and 7 Habits for Internet Safety. Download the free e-book now!
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