Citation

Gupta I. SCRIPTed 2005; 390-396.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, University of Edinburgh)

DOI

10.2966/scrip.020305.390

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The entire thought of structuring a zone for adult entertainment, discarding the child pornography is a promising one but it cannot be a panacea until the registration for all future adult web-sites is made compulsory with domain name '.xxx' and nothing else. This initiative will circumvent the online adult entertainment into a much more close circuit atmosphere which can be monitored.

Also setting up of a zone with '.xxx' will ensure children (mostly from home or school) will not come in contact with the objectionable material but it leaves out the other points of contact like internet chat room and mobile communication. There is a severe limitation of this approach considering the fact that when children access the Internet from other places there may be little or no supervision.

This approach of 'home for the online pornography' with the current initiative cannot stand on its own due to the abovementioned limitations. So there is a need for co-operation and complimentary effort from the software industry, the several task force created, governmental bodies and parents to play the supporting role to curb child abuse due to online pornography.

But setting up a zone for adult entertainment is a positive step nonetheless for the protection of children from online child abuse.