I HAVE learned that last year, the Australian government spent A$189 million (RM546 million) on "cleaning up the Internet" for Australian families, blocking pornography, upgrading safety features in search engines to spot chat-room sex predators and cutting off terror sites.
More must be done to help parents in preventing children from being exposed to damaging 'net culture'.
As a result, every Australian family was provided with a free Internet filter when their federal government entered into an unprecedented partnership with their local Internet service providers in the effort to filter pornography at source.
Here in Malaysia, violent and pornographic Internet sites are threatening Malaysian family values. The government must act now to stop our children being exposed to explicit violence and all kinds of pornography on the Internet.
As a father, I am deeply concerned about the material that my children can access on the Internet unchecked. These disturbing sites include explicit pornography or violent criminal activity, terrorism and Internet gambling sites.
Modern technology was created for all the reasons known to humankind. The good ones as well as the bad ones created what is today the indispensable www.
Here in Malaysia, violent and pornographic Internet sites are threatening Malaysian family values. The government must act now to stop our children being exposed to explicit violence and all kinds of pornography on the Internet.
As a father, I am deeply concerned about the material that my children can access on the Internet unchecked. These disturbing sites include explicit pornography or violent criminal activity, terrorism and Internet gambling sites.
Modern technology was created for all the reasons known to humankind. The good ones as well as the bad ones created what is today the indispensable www.
Sometimes, modern technology can make parenting a little bit harder and access to these websites undermines the ability of parents and schools to teach respect and Malaysian values to our children.
One of the important points outlined in the Education Ministry's National Education Blueprint is to produce students (who are the future of Malaysia) in the shapes and cast that is uniquely Malaysian. I fear that if this goes unchecked, all hopes for better Malaysians will be lost in the www shuffle. The Internet, in the wrong hands, could create a deplorable situation.
On the issue of Internet safety, parents and educators are already worried about children chatting with strangers and of strangers preying on teenagers in chat rooms.
I feel that the government must do more to assist parents in preventing their children being exposed to such damaging "net culture".
In Malaysia alone, we have over 500,000 active blog sites - the fourth-highest in the world. This goes to show the strength and influence the Internet has on our society.
We must all shape this influence into a welcoming culture that would be uniquely ours, a culture that would not, in the end, erode and destroy us all.
One of the important points outlined in the Education Ministry's National Education Blueprint is to produce students (who are the future of Malaysia) in the shapes and cast that is uniquely Malaysian. I fear that if this goes unchecked, all hopes for better Malaysians will be lost in the www shuffle. The Internet, in the wrong hands, could create a deplorable situation.
On the issue of Internet safety, parents and educators are already worried about children chatting with strangers and of strangers preying on teenagers in chat rooms.
I feel that the government must do more to assist parents in preventing their children being exposed to such damaging "net culture".
In Malaysia alone, we have over 500,000 active blog sites - the fourth-highest in the world. This goes to show the strength and influence the Internet has on our society.
We must all shape this influence into a welcoming culture that would be uniquely ours, a culture that would not, in the end, erode and destroy us all.
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