Parents wanting to protect their children from undesirable material on the Internet used to have a fairly easy task:
Install filtering software on the computer!
In 2010 that is simply not enough. Why?
Because access to the Internet is no longer limited to the PC/Mac but now includes the following devices:
Media devices, such as the iPod Touch
Sony PlayStation [...]
My kids hate our filters, at least that’s the response I get. It’s not because they are trying to go bad places, but the filters are there to protect them and sometimes require them to get my wife or me to authorize access to an acceptable site that was blocked*.
You might not want to deal [...]
This is the second part of a three-part post.
The topics to be covered are:
Is Your Church Cyber-Safe? Introduction
Is Your Church Cyber-Safe? Implementation
Is Your Church Cyber-Safe? Recovery
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IMPLEMENTATION
In the previous post I introduced the issue and need for a cyber-safe church. In this post I’d like to discuss issues surrounding the implementation of a cyber-safe church, and [...]
This is the first of a three-part post.
The topics to be covered are:
Is Your Church Cyber-Safe? Introduction
Is Your Church Cyber-Safe? Implementation
Is Your Church Cyber-Safe? Recovery
.
INTRODUCTION
We’ve all read the headlines or heard the news about a church leader falling to sin via the Internet. While it may be an online affair (which often moves offline) it [...]
“We don’t need to install filters, we trust our kids.”
“Our kids wouldn’t be interested in that, and know that it is wrong, so we trust them with their computers in their rooms.”
Those are two common sentiments that I encounter as I do seminars on Internet safety around the country. Sometimes it is voiced by a [...]
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