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Warning

While there are any number of wonderful places on the Internet to entertain and educate your child, there are also an even greater number of sites that contain material you may not consider suitable for your child to be exposed to. The resources on this page have been selected to provide you with the tools to determine what is and is not appropriate material for your child's viewing, and to control his or her access accordingly.

We would sincerely appreciate your contributions to this body of information. Please email us with your suggestions. Thanks so very much!

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Microsoft Internet Explorer Content Advisor

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Other Resources to Protect Your Little Web Surfers

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View Yahoo's list of blocking and filtering software

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Organizations That Watch The Web

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Microsoft Internet Explorer Content Advisor

In MSIE 4.01 and later versions, select Help from your main menu bar, then select "Using security features" from the Contents dialog.

What is Content Advisor?

The Internet provides us with unprecedented access to a wide variety of information. Some information, however, may not be suited for every viewer. For example, you might want to prevent your children from seeing information with violent or sexual content.

With Content Advisor, Internet Explorer provides a way to help you control the types of content that your computer can access on the Internet. After you turn on Content Advisor, only rated content that meets or exceeds your criteria can be displayed. You can adjust the settings.

Specifically, Content Advisor allows you to:

  • Control access to Content Advisor settings. You turn Content Advisor on, and view the settings, by setting up a password.*
    You will need this password to change any Content Advisor settings, so you might want to write down your password for
    future reference.

  • View and adjust the ratings settings to reflect what you think is appropriate content in each of four areas: language, nudity,
    sex, and violence.

  • Adjust what types of content other people can view with or without your permission. You can override content settings on a
    case-by-case basis.

  • View and change the ratings systems and bureaus you use.

Content Advisor is set to the most conservative (least likely to offend) settings when you first enable it. You can adjust these settings to match your own preferences.

Not all Internet content is rated. If you choose to allow other people to view unrated sites on your computer, some of those sites could contain inappropriate material.

*CAUTION: If you activate the Content Advisor and set a password, you will not be able to deactivate the Content Advisor without that password. If you forget the password, not even completely reinstalling Internet Explorer will allow you to access anything on the internet that exceeds the rating levels you have set.

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Other Resources to Protect
Your Little Web Surfers

Smart Parent

SmartParent.com is a resource dedicated to educating parents on the best ways to safeguard their children from the dangers presented by cyberspace. Our goal is to help keep the online experience safe, educational and entertaining for children.


We-Blocker FREE Internet Filtering Software

We-Blocker enables you to effectively restrict access to the types of websites that you feel may be unsuitable for your family. Fully customizable and easy to use, the We-Blocker software permits you to create accounts for each member of your household and place restrictions on access to seven categories of material. ... [ MORE ]


Net Nanny
Download Net Nanny

Net Nanny is an the award-winning parental control software for Windows. Net Nanny V3.1 adds new screening list capabilities, including URLs (Internet Addresses), Newsgroups, Chatlines, and filtering for both “Can Go” and “Can’t Go” screening for website URLs. You can also monitor incoming and outgoing communications in e-mail and chat and block the transmission of personal information like names, addresses, telephone and credit card numbers.

Family Bible Church is an authorized distributor of NetNanny. All profits from the sale of NetNanny are applied directly toward the costs of maintaining this web site.


SurfControl
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Acquisitions: EmU Tech, Cyber Patrol, SurfWatch, CSM, Little Brother

Cyber Patrol for Education is a powerful tool that helps concerned educators embrace technology in their classroom while protecting their students every step of the way. For client or server applications, Cyber Patrol combines flexible, customizable settings with the world-renowned CyberNOT list of inappropriate sites.

Cyber Patrol for Home is a powerful tool that helps concerned parents embrace technology in their homes while protecting their children every step of the way. Cyber Patrol combines flexible, customizable settings with the world-renowned CyberNOT list of inappropriate sites. Also features ChatGARD to prevent kids from divulging personal information over the Internet and the Kids (CyberYES) List of safe, appropriate sites for children.


Cyber Sitter

CYBERsitter 97 gives the parent or other concerned individual the ability to limit their children's access to objectionable material on the Internet. Parents can choose to block, block and alert, or simply alert them when access is attempted to these areas. Working secretly in the background, CYBERsitter analyzes all Internet activity. Whenever it detects activity the parent has elected to restrict, it takes over and blocks the activity before it takes place. If desired, CYBERsitter will maintain a complete history of all Internet activity, including attempts to access blocked material.  Password protected, CYBERsitter is easy to deactivate or reconfigure by the parent, and virtually impossible for the child to detect or defeat.


Cyber Snoop

CyberSnoop for Windows 95 and Windows NT. Instead of trying to sanitize the Internet, Cyber Snoop places the emphasis on teaching responsible Internet usage through supervision and communication. Cyber Snoop is a tool that educates users to make positive choices when tapping the potential of the Internet.


Gulliver's Guardian


Gulliver's Guardian

Gulliver Software’s new GUARDIAN Internet Suite gives your computer the freedom to move freely yet safely throughout the Internet, gazing upon and communicating with everything in its path. Guardian supports Multiple User Profiles on a single computer and has a user friendly interface, so it’s easy for anyone to use.


Smart Alex

Provides a visual record of activities for peace of mind. In minutes and at any time, SmartAlex provides the information you need to help keep your child out of trouble.  Screen snapshots, taken at regular intervals, provide you with the day's activities, including the date and time of each picture taken. See images of conversations, e-mail, word processing documents and more -  virtually anything that's displayed on their computer's screen, ON or OFF the internet.


Planet

Planet View is a filtering and parental control product specifically designed to work with a limited number of television-based internet access products, such as WebTV. At their web site is an index of web sites that they have reviewed and labeled for parental control and filtering. To gain an idea of the accuracy of their rating and filtering system, we registered Family Bible Church with PlanetView and received the following listing and filters for this web site. After you have spent some time on our site, we will leave it up to you do decide the accuracy of their comments.

Family Bible Church
Find a wealth of information about the Christian religion at this Website. Here you can find bible study materials, a mission statement, sermons, funny jokes, and more.

http://www.familybible.org/
This URL has been rated and has the following content filtering labels:

PLANET VIEW'S COMMENTS OUR RESPONSE TO THE COMMENTS
Advertising : Promotion of products or services and banner advertisements of other sites (similar to advertisement in magazines or newspapers).
 
Violence : Non-Gratuitous torture/death: Extreme violence such as torture and violent deaths presented for informational or educational purposes.
We were apparently given this rating for our for our discussion of the crucifixion of our Lord Jesus Christ, without Whose suffering there could be no remission of sin.
Sex : Sexual Connotations: Concepts or innuendo that invokes sexual connotations such as poetry, song lyrics, and images of models. We can easily see how this could be mistaken for a pornographic site! Have we quoted something from the Song of Solomon somewhere?
Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Subjects : Information regarding gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender subjects presented in an impartial, informative manner.
Perhaps from our doctrinal statement in which we state that all sexual conduct outside of marriage is sinful.
Politics : Political Promotional: Site content attempts to persuade the viewer to support or join a specific political issue or group. 
This must be because our doctrinal statement takes exception to the Supreme Court's continuous abuse of the the constitutional protection of freedom of religion.
Religion : Religious Promotional Religious Promotional: Site content attempts to persuade the viewer to join a particular religious group or support their beliefs.
Guilty as charged! We would like to see you become a Christian if you aren’t already. If you are already a Christian, we would like you to know what historic Christianity teaches.
Mature subject : Material conventionally considered inappropriate for younger children including discussions of drug use, weapon making, suicide, racism, disease and medical procedures. Apparently it is inappropriate to let children know that Adonai Yeshua HaMashiach, the Lord Jesus Christ, loved them enough to die for their sins so they might spend all eternity with Him.

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View Yahoo's list of blocking and filtering software


Organizations That Watch The Web

FBI Office of Crimes Against Children: 202-324-3666

CyberAngels

“Cyberangels is an all-volunteer group, comprised of kids, teens, parents, grandparents, teachers, librarians, doctors, plumbers, law enforcement officers, judges, writers, techies, poets, designers, lawyers, construction workers, accountants, government workers, union members, stay-at-home moms … you name it and we've got 'em, and from all over the world, too. You see, we all have one thing in common … we care. We also operate in cyberspace which is borderless and has no national boundaries. Here we are all citizens of the cyberworld.”

 
This website supports and is registered with the following organizations:

ThisThe Recreational Software Advisory Council is an independent, non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C, that empowers the public, especially parents, to make informed decisions about electronic media by means of an open, objective, content advisory system. The RSACi system provides consumers with information about the level of sex, nudity, violence, offensive language (vulgar or hate-motivated) in software games and Web sites. To date, RSACi has been integrated into Microsoft's browser, Internet Explorer, and MicroSystem's Cyber Patrol Software, and Netscape Navigator (beginning with version 4.5). CompuServe (US and Europe) has also committed to rate all its content with the RSACi system.

SafeSurfWe're an organization dedicated to making the Internet safe for your children without censorship. We've developed and are implementing an Internet Rating Standard that is bringing together parents, providers, publishers, developers, and all the resources available on the Internet to achieve this goal.   It involves marking sites with the SafeSurf Wave. We take a positive stand on what's available on the Internet with Kid’s Wave, a list of top sites devoted to educating and entertaining children. 

MeetsFreedom of speech is an extremely important right of all citizens. However, all citizens also have a right to live without being molested verbally, visually, emotionally or physically. While some proponents of absolute and total freedom of speech place that right above seemingly all other citizen rights, we are not here to make judgment on that opinion. In fact, we understand the reasons why many feel so strongly about freedom of speech in light of abuses by many past and present governments. The purpose of the Family Friendly Sites Program is simply to offer a clear indication via FFS emblems of places on the Internet that voluntarily abide by established guidelines of conduct. The Family-Friendly Sites emblems are trademarks of VXR Corporation and may only be displayed on sites that meet the currently published guidelines.

1reportchildpornsmall.gif (5735 bytes)We are a coalition of great webmasters who have joined forces together to promote the reporting of any child porn on the Internet. You will find that we compromise of several different backgrounds on the Internet, from thumbnail gallery post operators, free hosting companies, advertisers, non-adult webmasters, and just plain old people who can't stand the thought of our business's being abused and deteriorated by ignorant people who don't know the difference between right and wrong. We have combined our efforts with local, state, federal and international governments to put a halt to the exploitation of children around the world.

 

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Thus says the LORD, “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping.
Rachel is weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children,
because they are no more.” (Jer. 31:15, NAS)

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