Black Church Responds to Internet Pornography Companies Targeting Black Communities
Posted on: Wednesday, 17 May 2006, 15:03 CDT
BOSTON, May 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Black pastors across the country are taking a stand on Internet pornography companies that are targeting the Black community by highjacking domain names of Black leaders to use for pornography websites. Both MartinLutherKing.com and JesseJackson.com are now owned by an Internet pornography company known as Club Pink. Because domain names go to the first group registering them, pornography companies often buy domain names that might draw people unknowingly to their pornography site. While in many cases, domain name highjacking violates trademark laws, it requires an expensive, lengthy process for the legitimate owners of the trademarks and names to remove the highjackers.
Last month, TechMission's Safe Families Program and the Black Ministerial Alliance of Greater Boston hosted an online safety workshop for the Black community addressing concerns around those intentionally targeting the Black community (available online at http://www.safefamilies.org/). The workshop was led by Bil Mooney-McCoy, a Black pastor in inner-city Boston who also serves as the Safe Families Program Director. The workshop was held at the historic Black church, Global Ministries Christian Church (GMCC), where TechMission initially began.
The Safe Families Program demonstrates that the Black Church is leading the world in addressing the issue of online safety. The Safe Families website provides free software to protect children by blocking objectionable material online. TechMission's Safe Families software represents a long awaited update, building on the We-Blocker.com software, which has been the most popular free filtering software (last updated in 2001). The website provides the following training materials:
* For parents: steps to implement an online safety, a software ratings guide and a family internet safety pledge * For pastors: steps for dealing with pornography in their churches including church bulletin inserts * For nonprofits and schools: training materials and curriculum for online safety * For pornography addicts: steps for recovery from pornography addiction including a media/pornography sobriety covenant, questions to test for sex addiction and lists of counseling and other resources
Safe Families grew out of TechMission's (http://www.techmission.org/) Association of Christian Community Computer Centers (AC4), which includes hundreds of Black churches addressing the digital divide. AC4 sites served over 46,760 participants last year.
For more information, contact Bil Mooney-McCoy (bil@techmission.org) or Andrew Sears (andrew@techmission.org) or at 617-282-9798.
TechMission
CONTACT: Bil Mooney-McCoy, bil@techmission.org, or Andrew Sears,andrew@techmission.org, both of TechMission, +1-617-282-9798
Web site: http://www.techmission.org/http://www.safefamilies.org/
Source: PRNewswire
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