Online Predators

With the increase use of the internet, the world in today era seems to be in unlimited borders where every thing could be done in ‘online’. Online give to the world a definition of technology where people could interact face to face indifferently from any other conventional tools. With this advancement people could seek their fortune and wealth in the new forms and perhaps change their way of their life for better improvements

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 Indeed, there are no doubts that technology could bring prosperity and affluences towards the man kind generally and the internet users specifically. However internet should not be perceived as perfect towards the human society. A recent studied conduct in 2008 by Ezine Articles shows that Internet influential is far more superior to any other type form of media available to mankind.   

Dangers lurks everywhere

Child sexual exploitation occurs in every economic, social, ethnic, and religious group. With the explosion of the Internet into a powerful, worldwide medium, the danger to children, whether they are from Kuala Lumpur or New York, has drastically increased. Pedophiles and other sexual predators can use the Internet, with no precautions, to exchange names and addresses of other pedophiles and of potential child victims. Hidden behind screen names that are pseudonyms, they gather online and swap child pornography with amazing speed and in amounts beyond our wildest imagination, which excites them to molest even more.

This surprising fact however could be related to unsurprising habits of the mankind itself when they are using the Internet services. According to RAINN which is Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network 44%of victims for internet sexual abuse are under age 18 whereby 80% are still under age 30. This disturbing fact also show that every two minutes someone in U.S. is sexually assaulted. 

On the other hand, RAINN also reported that there are several types of sexual assaults which are rape, acquaintance rape, partner rape, hate crimes, incest, stalking, sexual exploitations, sexual harassments and male sexual assault. It is not surprise that all of this type of assault could occurs to the victims while they are using the internet as the medium to socialize with others. 

Realizing on how the dangers of internet online predator are, government has taken measure to overcome the factor that could contribute the children into the statistics. For example in Malaysia, the PDRM has created their own special task force to deal with this type of crime. Not only it involve sexual assault but also identity thief or fraud which fall under its jurisdictions. Other that took the initiative is some Malaysia governments’ agencies which emphasize on the safety when being ‘online’. The MOSTI and KPWKM plays a vital role in the campaign to promote, educated and create awareness about the danger of internet if it is not being watched carefully. 

Thus at the same time parents should share the burden and hand to hand with the government in regards to make sure that the misuse of internet should be minimize not only acted as a watch dog but also as an enforcement like to put a ‘filter’ on their computers. By this way not all the information can easily send or received. Plus it could also minimize the chance to be stalked by anonymous in the internet in which most of the cases internet users doesn’t know who are they communicate to and what are their background.