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Beyond Tolerance : Child Pornography on the Internet, Hardback Book

Beyond Tolerance : Child Pornography on the Internet Hardback

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The first book on the abhorrent business of child pornography Perhaps nothing evokes more universal disgust as child pornography.

The world of its makers and users is so abhorrent that it is rarely discussed much less studied.

Child pornographers have taken advantage of this and are successfully using the new electronic media to exchange their wares without detection or significant sanction.

What are the implications of this threat for free speech and a free exchange of ideas on the internet? And how can we stop this illegal activity, which is so repugnant that even the most laissez-faire cyberlibertarians want it stamped out, if we know nothing about it?Philip Jenkins takes a leap onto the lower tiers of electronic media in this first book on the business of child pornography online.

He tells the story of how the advent of the internet caused this deviant subculture to become highly organized and go global.

We learn how the trade which operates on clandestine websites from Budapest or Singapore to the U.S. is easy to glimpse yet difficult to eradicate. Jenkins details how the most sophisticated transactions are done through a proxy, a “false flag” address, rendering the host computer, and participants, virtually unidentifiable. And these sites exist for only a few minutes or hours allowing on-line child pornographers to stay one step ahead of the law.

This is truly a globalized criminal network which knows no names or boundaries, and thus challenges both international and U.S. law. Beyond Tolerance delves into the myths and realities of child pornography and the complex process to stamp out criminal activity over the web, including the timely debates over trade regulation, users' privacy, and individual rights.

This sobering look and a criminal community contains lessons about human behavior and the law that none interested in media and the new technology can afford to ignore.

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