The article “Cyber-Predators”, by Brian Hansen, centers its attention on online safety. More specifically, it talks about sexual child harassment on the Internet.
The author starts off by defining the problem and then he gives examples and cites some experts about it. After that he talks about the government measures against this and continues to explain how the dangers of online surfing have multiplied over the last 10 years. One example of measures taken by the government is the undercover agents who go online and get in chat rooms pretending to be kids to catch the “online predators”. He gives some statistics on number of children in the US using internet (by the date the article was posted) and also shows some statistics about kids who have been at least attempted to contact by these “predators”.
Examples and names of predators captured by the law are used very often throughout the text to show examples of how they work and are caught. Experts on the topic’s opinions are also cited, like US Custom Services spokesmen.
The article states how predators always cover by saying they’ve been entrapped, which is when they say undercover policemen made them do things they wouldn’t do otherwise, and it explains other ways they try to avoid the law.
The author continues to talk about predator attacks and people taking care of this and trying to entrap them, concluding with some suggestions to parents and kids who can be target of such attacks to end his article.
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