How is the Internet dangerous for children?
What’s happened with the internet is that it took a population of marginalized individuals and created a community, and it created a community of individuals who prey upon children. It’s an anonymous community that does file-sharing of illegal images of kids. It networks and emboldens itself, and it does that by sharing information on how best to use the internet to prey on kids. The stereotypical child molester perhaps used to be the guy that would lurk around the schoolyard, and prey upon kids in the schoolyard, or on the street. But because of technology and because of binary code, those very same individuals now are able to find their way into our children’s bedrooms, without our knowledge. They are then able to find those children that we talked about earlier, those children with confidence issues, or those children that are vulnerable, and then prey upon those children through chat rooms, or through instant messaging or any of a number of means of communicating via the internet.
