Child Porn Among Fastest Growing Internet Businesses....WHY?

Child Porn Among Fastest Growing Internet Businesses

By LifeSiteNews.com Staff

ALEXANDRIA, Va., November 9, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Within only a few years, child pornography has become a multi-billion dollar commercial enterprise, and is among the fastest growing businesses on the Internet. Through the use of digital and web cameras, child pornography has become easier and less expensive to produce. Distribution on the Internet has facilitated instant access by thousands and possibly millions of individuals throughout the world. The ability to use credit cards to purchase child pornography has made it easier than ever to obtain.

Arrests in the United States for the possession of child pornography, during a one-year period from 2000 to 2001, exposed alarming activities.

According to investigators, the majority of those arrested had images of children who had not yet reached puberty. Specifically, 83% had pornographic material that involved children between ages of 6 and 12; 39% had material involving children between ages 3 and 5; and 19% had images of infants or toddlers under age 3.

"The ease and anonymity of using home computers has revolutionized accessibility as well as the production and distribution of child pornography, especially across international borders," said Ernie Allen, President and CEO, National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). "The fact that child pornography can be purchased using a credit card, or traded at no cost on the Internet, is causing an exploding global problem and an immeasurable impact on the sexual exploitation of children."

The exact number of Web sites is difficult to determine. Since 1997, the number of child pornography images on the Internet is estimated to have increased by 1500%. It is estimated that 100,000 child pornography Web sites exist on the Internet, and that number may be increasing. NCMEC's congressionally mandated CyberTipline received 21,603 reports of child pornography in 2001, and in 2004 it received 106,176 reports -- a 491% increase over a four-year period.

Child pornography is illegal in most countries. The possession and/or distribution of child pornography is a federal crime in the United States. It is estimated that 20% of all pornography on the Internet involves children.

"Traditionally, we have viewed pedophiles as the users and distributors of child pornography," said Allen. "However, we are shocked to learn that the consumer market for child pornography is growing and becoming much broader.

Younger and younger children are being victimized, and the content is becoming more graphic and more violent."

Resources:
http://www.missingkids.com
http://www.cybertipline.com

WHY IS THIS HAPPENING?

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Reply 1

Navindu

you answered your own question.
digital cameras and growth of internet.

but
is child pornography/abuse increasing, or is it just increasingly being exposed.

think about it

Reply 2

Zoecb

Because some people are perverts, mass advertising of their presence thanks to crime is equivalent of them egging each other on and the availibility of things for them to buy and indulge their sick minds makes some people a lot of money, illegal as it is.

Money makes the world go round. Children have been exploited for centuries, only now it's on the internet. If people cared that much about child exploitation why didn't they do something about the problems that existed even before the internet existed?

Reply 3

NDGAARONDI

Navindu

you answered your own question.
digital cameras and growth of internet.

but
is child pornography/abuse increasing, or is it just increasingly being exposed.

think about it

Both.

Reply 4

Niaya

because no matter how many people are sitting her going OMFG thats wrong children shuoldnt be abused like that

there are people who get off on that sort of thing and while there is a demand it will be produced

Reply 5

SuperhansFavouriteAlsatian

Because those ker-raZy Russian's are finally getting hooked up to the net in Siberia.

Oh, those zany commies - what will they think of next?!

Reply 6

Douglas

Navindu

you answered your own question.
digital cameras and growth of internet.

but
is child pornography/abuse increasing, or is it just increasingly being exposed.

think about it

Perhaps increasingly being exposed......I advocate execution for anyone uploading pictures of any child under 14.

BTW, why do you have an avatar of a killer ?................OJ

Reply 7

Navindu

Douglas

Perhaps increasingly being exposed......I advocate execution for anyone uploading pictures of any child under 14.

BTW, why do you have an avatar of a killer ?................OJ

They should raid the family phot sites. Bastards are uploading their family photos of their kids left right and centre :tongue:

No one else has OJ as an avatar.
thats why.

Reply 8

Douglas

Navindu

No one else has OJ as an avatar.
thats why.

Ok, I buy that.

Reply 9

Kondar

I saw a very interesting program on TV recently, tell me what you all think.

People are digitally creating child pornography and then selling it. By doing this, no children are harmed in any way as the children in these images do not exist and are 100% art/computer generated. Should it be legal or illegal to sell these images?