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US Task Force to crack down on adult pornography: READ BETWEEN THE FUCKING LINES
"U.S. Attorney Gregory Van Tatenhove made the announcement Thursday as part of a campaign to crack down on child and hard-core adult pornography"
This is the key statement. CRACK DOWN ON HARD CORE PORNOGRAPHY. They are linking c h i l d p 0 r n to hardcore. Notice how the news media fails to link this.
How can ANYONE here not see this? This industry is about to be shut down.
Hope the Republicans here are happy.
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Task Force Forms To Catch People Targeting Children On Internet
(LEXINGTON, Ky., December 6th, 2002, 11:25 a.m.) -- Law enforcement officials hope to have a task force battling sexual predators who target children on the Internet by early next year.
U.S. Attorney Gregory Van Tatenhove made the announcement Thursday as part of a campaign to crack down on child and hard-core adult pornography.
Ten years ago, Internet child porn and stalking were virtually nil in Kentucky, but in the past 1 1/2 years, federal prosecutors have pressed 25 child-exploitation cases.
The new task force, which will include local, state and federal law enforcement agents, is to be funded by a $300,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, Van Tatenhove said.
Van Tatenhove said he wanted to sound a loud alarm to parents and others in the community about sexual predators, and warned that people should not be lulled into a sense of safety by computer programs that claim to filter out porn sites and chat rooms.
Instead, parents should treat the Internet as the proverbial playground at which children are strictly taught not to talk to strangers, he said.
"This is a playground where we have to be as diligent as we are elsewhere," he said.
The number of children who use the Internet is expected to grow from 24 million in 1999 to 77 million in 2005, Van Tatenhove said. That's all very good for education, but it also poses a threat.
"Criminals will use it to prey on innocent children," he said.
A study in 2000 by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children showed one in five children who used the Internet had been solicited sexually in the previous year; one in four had been sent unwanted sexual pictures; and one in 33 had been aggressively sexually solicited -- by someone who wanted to meet them, who called them or sent them gifts.
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