Recently, Internet industry leaders agreed to provide parents with better screening tools to protect children from adult materials online.

According to an article in the Des Moines Register, about 400 industry, education and parents’ groups have pledged to support a public education campaign to teach parents about the Web and the hazards it presents to children.

Parents should understand the need of education when it involves protecting children from online pornography and obscenity.

In addition, parents should be aware of the types of obscene material that can easily be obtained from the Internet. It is too easy for children to obtain pornography from the Internet.

There must be some means of control over the material available for customers.

The meeting of the industry leaders follows a White House meeting last July in which President Clinton urged the Internet industry to develop a strategy to help police child pornography online.

According to the article, the focus of the campaign is “parental empowerment and education.”

The new campaign will prompt parents to take part in a public education campaign to help control adult content on the Internet.

Parents will have the power to decide what is appropriate for their children to view and will have a hand in preventing some of the Internet’s negative impact.The campaign also will help eliminate the number of children from accessing adult material from the Internet.

It’s about time parents take control over what their children can obtain from the Internet.

Since children access adult materials via the Internet without difficulty, it is time for the government to step in and show some responsibility. But it has to be done without infringing on the rights of those that wish access to whatever they choose.