The rapid growth and popularity of the Internet has made it an indispensable vehicle for commerce, information and communication. With a vast interactive audience, a wide diversity of content is available to any Internet user.
Unrestricted access provides the ultimate diversity in information, culture, art, music and sex.
Hundreds of thousands of explicit web sites exist with millions of pages of HTM material are easily accessed by a few clicks of a mouse. Commissioners heard testimony from a wide diversity of organizations, technology vendors and individuals who all represented their perspective and information succinctly. However, I feel we have only opened the door on many issues and because of time and resource limitations, not fully explored important facets of our investigations. I believe an acronym is appropriate to express the diversity a solution may entail. Equation A wareness, L aw enforcement, E ducation, R esponsibility and T echnology all have a part to play in the protection equation.