Child online safety in indian context
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2020
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Andrews D.
Alathur S.
Chetty N.
Kumar V.
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Children initiates the usage of Internet during young age and spend more time online. Apart from the benefits like improved education, entertainment, news and gaming, Internet poses severe threats to the children online. Ensuring online safety is a global challenge. The purpose of this paper is to examine online social media responses and awareness posts on children online safety. In this relation, Twitter social media responses after freeing the accusers of children sexual harassment and Facebook pages of some prominent personalities in India for online safety are analyzed. The results reveal that though the people are angry and fearful, they believe judiciary and police system and expecting safety from the same. The analysis of Facebook posts depicts that the concerned authorities are active towards child online safety and providing awareness through their representatives. People demand legal actions against the perpetrators of the crime to punish them. The necessary actions should be taken for cyber-crime awareness information to reach all social media users. © 2020 IEEE.
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Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Computing, Communication and Security, ICCCS 2020 , Vol. , , p. -