Keeping Porn out of the home

The tech giants do not like to talk about it publicly, but something like half the internet traffic is pornography. With ubiquitous access to the web by everyone, children are exposed to hard core pornography at early ages.

It has been questioned if this is a bug or a feature. Could it be that the quest to spread the internet, especially high-speed internet from one corner of the globe to the other, is to bring in the smut, to drive out tradition, especially religions that demand modesty? Used to missionaries from churches would knock on doors to talk people into joining their church. Big tech might doing what it can to get pre-teens into porn as a missionary endeavor to spread secularism. And everyone opens the door and lets them.

Why is so much pornography available for free? Sure, some may be advertisements to get to people to sign up for pay-sites. But, so much out there, free? What is going on? Religious tracts are not sold, they are handed out for free. And could it be that the apostles of high tech hand out the anti-religion, porn, for free too?

And how horrible it is that young children are exposed to this material. They will grow up, if not addicted to such material, then certainly warped none the less. Porn directors film ever edgier scenes to make their material new. Kids will think that is all normal, to be expected. An educator once said they were asked by a teenage boy why women liked being choked during sex. The response was “They don’t!” The boy was just learning from what he had seen. What is being unleashed?

Parents must do what they can to protect their family. The best method is to filter the network at the source, and in many cases, it can be done for nothing. It is also a good idea to put time limits on internet access on children's devices, and to periodically check on what sites they have gone to.

Suggested methods:

• Open DNS This will not work on every home router, but will on most of them. The basic system costs nothing. In one case of a tech giant turnign a good deed, Cisco provides this. It is a domain-name-service that simply does not provide the information a broweser needs to get to a smut site. It prevents Virtual Private Networks too, which could subert that. There is a variation of this system, for free too, that comes with a bit of customerization to white list and black list specific site and the ability to check on which sites have been visited.


• Kibosh FilterThis is a replacement router that blocks smut. Highly customizable. Can enfore safe-searches only. Can also list the seraches and site visits from each computer on the network. Also, each computer connecting to it can have schedules of access assigned.


• Firewalla This does much of the same the same, and provides security features to boot. Instead of a replacement router, it simply plugs into your existing router.

Note that these solutions will only keep your home wi-fi mostly safe. It will not fix the open network of a neighbor, nor will it do anything to secure any smart phones with phone service. There is no substitute for supervision and for not giving children more technology than they can use responsibly.

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