By Moneer Al-Omari
The search for bad material surpasses by far the search for useful and
good things available on the internet for many in Yemen. According to
Google Trends, Arabs are ranked first concerning search for sex and
other linked material.
Yemen Net or Teleyemen, Yemen's internet providers have sought to block
any website containing porn content and other materials that goes
against the Islamic principles.
Further, Information Ministry has ordered the owners of internet cafes
nationwide to remove the shields that were made in the past to separate
one user from another. According to the resolution, computer screens
should be directed towards the front and there should be nothing that
prevents others watching what are you surfing.
Internet café owner Ibrahim Sa'eed, 26, pointed out that there is less
browsing of pornographic websites because these sites are regularly
filtered out and blocked by internet service providers through placing
special programs.
"There are a large number of sex materials and websites. Their number is
increasing markedly day by day. I think it is a hard task to filter all
porn website, mainly because new websites are introduced every day,"
said Sa'eed.
He added that Information Ministry did well when it ordered internet
café owners to keep all screens open to the front, where it is
impossible for internet users to browse porn websites.
In addition, some internet café owners have programs that allow them to
monitor what their clients are browsing. "Through a program I can
closely find what my customers are browsing. When I find that a customer
is navigating pornography website, I shut the customer's system
automatically from my disk and I ask him to leave immediately,"
mentioned an internet café worker in the capital.
But an internet user interrupted me while speaking to Sa'eed and noted
that he is against filtering, emphasizing that programs meant for
filtering could not decide what is pornographic and what is not. He
continued that there must be something that we are in need for a better
developed programs to filter and block only websites with bad content.
Yemen’s internet providers offer users the service to report the
existence of porn internet site and the company will block it as it
receives an e-mail from the user confirming the existence of a porn
website. They also use programs to filter the websites from any porn
content.
However, their trials have failed under the inordinate growth of porn
websites, sometimes under names not directly related to sex. Some
websites are designed with special attention to trap children and
adolescents and to direct them to immoral behavior or bad habits.
Apart from the use of internet for cheating, blackmailing and other
direct threats, children are being seduced through chatting rooms and
electronic mailing services where children, mostly underage, are subject
to harassment.
Experts hold that children's uncontrolled exposure to internet might
badly affect their lives because they are not ripe enough to distinguish
between what is right and what is wrong. They can simply accept anything
as something normal.
According to Internet Filter Website, over $3,075 is being spent every
second worldwide on pornography. Every second, 28,258 Internet users are
viewing pornography and 372 Internet users are typing adult search terms
into search engines. In addition, a new pornographic video is being
created in the United States every 39 minutes.
The same website revealed that pornography industry is larger than the
revenues of the top technology companies combined: Microsoft, Google,
Amazon, eBay, Yahoo!, Apple, Netflix and EarthLink.
How to protect children
Education specialists stress that parents should direct the use of
internet by their children right from the very beginning, to useful,
scientific and educational websites. They should always keep an eye on
what their children view in the internet.
Specialists also agree that the parents should be a model in using the
internet so that his children can imitate him in the future, hinting
that the parents should have deep knowledge about internet and should
know how to access the internet pages his children had viewed.
In this respect, parents can seek the help of experts to protect their
children against obscenity on the web. They can install filters to help
bloc the pornographic sites; though it is not the best way for
protecting children.
Source:
http://www.yemenpost.net/63/Reports/20084.htm
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