A petition to President urging to block abusive web sites

A petition to President urging to block abusive web sites

A petition with one million signatures under the theme of “ Lets protect our children signed and handed over to President Maithripala Sirisena on January 02nd at the Ruwanweliseya premises Anuradhapura urging the President to take

measures to block access to sites that contain sexually explicit material via mobile phone connections.

Social hospitality foundation Chairman K. H. Sanjeewa Dhammika Hemasiri said that mobile networks have provided facilities for 3G phones to access the Internet. But with widespread access to the Internet children may be exposed to millions of pages of sexually explicit materials.

He had added that sex activities of young children, sex of elderly women with men, sex involving animals, sex between children of same family, sex between homosexuals are common in these abusive web sites.

These type of web sites need to be block was the request of the social hospitality foundation Chairman's view.