The whole world uses the Internet on a daily basis, not only for business but also for education and information. Many users of the Internet are under 18 years old, yet everyone is exposed to the grossest sexual pictures without searching specifically for them — they show up under Internet searches when they have no relation to the item being searched for, on Web sites that shouldn’t be related to porn at all, in pop-up messages and by the thousands in unwanted e-mails.

Our legislators have passed four laws to stop children from receiving porn, three of which have been overturned by the courts with the help of the ACLU and the wide interpretation of the First Amendment.

Our group proposes the creation of a new domain to be used for materials not appropriate for children, a domain of .xxx (triple x).

Rather than banish kid materials to .kids domains and continue the proliferation of adult materials on .com domains, we believe in “web zoning.” Just as cities have court power to zone businesses in real estate, we could use the same concept to require adult materials to move to an .xxx domain where those who want to use them could find them more easily.

This would clean up .com domain sites.

We need the help of parents, grandparents, groups, religious denominations and concerned citizens to join us in combating this problem.

Please check out how you can get involved at

www.protecteverychild.org.

Joseph John Rothengast

Executive Director

Protect Every Child Organization