BloggerPower: Safeguard the web for children

May 12, 2007...9:44 am

BloggerPower: Safeguard the web for children

What is the “Blogger Power: Safeguard the Web for Children” project?

Just to make things clear:

this is not a campaign against pornography as a whole
this is not about restricting legitimate free speech and legal commerce
this is a common sense request to all the “adult site” webmasters: password-protected login on porn sites for all the explicit materials, no more “free clips”, “free tours”, “free pics” without login!

The initiators of the project are Jon Harmon, founder of Force for Good, and Mihaela Lica of Pamil Visions. We are bloggers and PR officers.

Read our“Open Letter to Bloggers Around the World: Help Make the Web Safer for Children” to understand the motivation behind the project.

How can you help?

If you are a blogger, post the common sense request to all the “adult site” webmasters on your site. You can either write your own article about it, or simply copy-paste our letter:

Please require a password-protected login before allowing even free access to explicit adult content. We understand that selling porn is your business and we respect your right to make a legal living. But understand our legitimate concerns and work with us. You already have the “warning adult content” on your websites. Yet kids, who are not legal customers of your product, ignore the warning. So to prevent them from having direct access to explicit images, texts and sounds, the simplest way is to have a password-protected login. No more “free tours” before a visitor supplies basic information.

When you are done, write a short email to bloggerpower@yahoo.com and supply the exact link to that entry. We will link to you from the BLOGGERS page. You don’t need to link to us if you don’t want to! But we need to make a list of all those entries at the end of this call to action. We need to do it to show it to the offline media how far the blogging community is ready to go to protect the interest of the children.

If you are not a blogger, or you simply don’t want to write an entry about this, but you want to support the campaign, the COMMENTS page is the right place for you.