In the face of the flood of available pornographic images of child abuse — often called child porn — available online, it may seem that there is little you can do to protect your children, or yourself, from this type of content. There are a number of ways that you can shield your children from pornographic, sexually explicit, or otherwise inappropriate content online. Lastly, remember you are your most reliable tool. No technical blocking solution alone is enough to protect a determined child or teen from finding pornography online.

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Just like you, millions of other parents also have the same question in their minds. You might already know how much effort it takes to provide a healthy upbringing to kids these days. With easy exposure to adult and indecent content, kids can access porn at an early age.

Anyone who has spend any time searching for anything on the unfiltered Internet knows that explicit content is often just a few accidental clicks away. Through this understanding, parents can block most pornography. Think of DNS as the digital phonebook for the Internet. For families with children, this often means wanting to block access to websites that are categorized as pornography, mature content, violence, weapons, and more. We do this by manually telling each of our digital devices to use a DNS server that prevents access to those categories.