Something as simple as having your child's computer face the door can give you information about your child's travels on the Internet. While there is no substitute for direct parental guidance and involvement, parents can use ADL publications such as Poisoning the Web and the many resources at ADL's Web site to teach children how to recognize hate and help them understand why they should reject it. In addition, parents can choose to install ADL HateFilter TM on their home computers. HateFilter protects children by blocking access to World Wide Web sites of individuals or groups that advocate hatred, bigotry or violence towards Jews or other groups on the basis of their religion, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation or other immutable characteristics. HateFilter offers users who try to access a blocked site the chance to link directly to a portion of the ADL Web site to learn more about hate's causes and effects.
Parents can disable the software at any time to look at the sites it filters with their children.
Using simple search tools, young Internet users can easily find hate propaganda if they are looking for it. They may also stumble upon such propaganda inadvertently. Searching for activity pages suitable for kids might land a child at a white supremacist site devoted to children, complete with coloring pages and a crossword puzzle. Misleading extremist Web sites that may lure unsuspecting children are on the rise. An informative and factual Web site concerned with the Holocaust, such as the site prepared by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, may be listed in Web directories alongside dozens of sites prepared by Holocaust deniers, who use the Internet to post thousands of pages of lies and distortions.