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13. The overlying problem has existed for years. The problem is local bodys (local governments) CAN NOT stop or control.....

..... internet-based abuses.

Here is an example of why I believe (know) that only the government has the tools and the power to address these problems.

The Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) was enacted by Congress in 2000 to address concerns about children's access to obscene or harmful content over the Internet.

In 2004, I was hired as a private consultant to manage the computer network of a small K-12 rural school. One of the biggest concerns and problems was stopping porn from getting into our private internal network.

Initially, schools would work with their ISP Internet Service Provider to block porn at their level before routing it on to their customers. That solution worked for a short time. Until the ISPs couldn't block all the porn that was passing through their system, as some of their customers wanted access to porn sites.

Very quickly, new businesses came online to provide software AND hardware to "interrupt" porn from getting to the computers the students had access to. That meant that the porn that got through our firewall (front door) would now need to be filtered before passing it on to student-accessible computers. This is where the new combination of software and hardware that each school was out of necessity (to meet CIPA requirements) was required to buy these solutions.

If memory serves me right, the cost of those solutions started at ~$15,000 and ranged upward to ~$25,000 per year. Very quickly, the providers decided to charge a base fee of ~ $15k—$25k and then add a per-student fee on top. Note: I said per student, not per computer.

Soon, the small district I supported cost the district 30K to 35K per year for "porn filtering".

So, let's look at the additional problems the CIPA law caused.

Each district initially needed to interact with the software/hardware provider regularly to point them to problems that needed to be addressed so that the software side of the system could be tweaked to "plug specific porn problems."

Here is one of the first ones I ran into. Breasts....seriously. Staff was catching students surfing to sites where female breasts were visible. So I contacted the porn filtering provider and gave them the websites that were the problem. Overnight, that site and others were blocked. Problem solved! For less than a day. Soon, I heard from the health teacher that any discussion of breast cancer was inaccessible. Next, the art teacher told me that sites that displayed masterpieces of statues and paintings were inaccessible.

Two more problems, and you will get to the point of this lengthy discussion.
1. Soon, the porn provider moved their operations offshore, preventing the FBI and other agencies from raiding and closing them down.
2. The final nail in the coffin of stopping porn in schools. SMARTPHONES in each student's pocket.

Twenty years later, after I started to try to prevent porn in schools, the problem is worse.

Smartphones are still a significant problem in every school, city, and state.

Only the government has the tools and the power to address these problems.

I got to retire ten years ago, but the problems are still there. And the only solution IMO is government intervention