I would download pages of the child's favourite website from the internet and then remove the modem so that the child can view the pages but cannot access the internet. If the child wants to send an email or discuss in a forum then the child will need your help to connect to the internet. You will have to supervise or moderate the child's email or forum messages.
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A fairly obvious solution too is not to let him have a computer where you can't see it. He doesn't get his own laptop. If he has a phone, he doesn't get Internet access on it. The computer in the house is in a place where it is easy to get caught rather than hard. Put it in a central location against a wall with the screen facing anyone who may enter the room. Or, if quiet for research and studying is important, let the door to the den be opposite to the computer screen, and let it be made of glass or have a sizable built-in window. In short, don't let him have any illusion of privacy when he's online. He may "hate" you for it, but if he knows he is likely to be caught, he is much less likely to do it in your house.
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Unfortunately most of this advice will go straight out the window as soon as this kid discovers proxy's.
Honestly I'd be more concerned with getting a strong anti-virus to protect against all the dirty pages that this kid will inevitably, at some point in his life browse. The more legitimate (or at least as legitimate as you can get with porn) stuff that gets blocked out, the deeper he will dive until he finds what he wants at the bottom of some Russian web ring, and you can bet there's a virus or two on the way.
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Speaking of proxies, you could always filter all connections from that computer through a local proxy. Just have it log websites. Anything strange comes up, it's time to have a talk. It's about as non-invasive as you can get while knowing what your kid is up to online.
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Its good to see other people are concerned with this too. My little sister was on a game site once and she saw some naked pics with ugly porn actors. It was a game site it should have been safe but whoever runs those sites must be sick. I hope they find Jesus.
We also have netnanny on our son's computer. And yes, it's annoying because it can block some fairly benign stuff. The nice thing about netnanny is that it does have an override feature...if my son wants to view something that is blocked, he can come get me and I can override it and then if it's okay, I can add it to the exceptions list.
Netnanny is not cheap and requires a subscription fee each year. But it has a very good user interface and lots of options to choose from in terms of filtering, or you can outright block sites. It's a very customizable program - we have three logins, mine, my son's and my four year old. Not that my four year old uses the computer without supervision, but it does prohibit anything bad from popping up in the course of looking for stuff.
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Set up an account, set your router to use opendns servers for dns resolution and set it to filter porn. Make sure your computers are using your router for dns and not connecting directly to outside dns servers. Not perfect but certainly helpful.
There ways of blocking your child from visiting all these obscene sites. One, you culd buy a software that does this job; 2) you could set your compute to block these kind of sites, that is if you; 3) install a parental firewall and don't give the password out; 4) don't let your child use the compute when you are not at home.
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