Nick Jr. not Family-friendly

Nick Jr. has linked to addictinggames.com. Why? Well, here's how it works: Viacom, Nickelodeon's parent company, is also the parent company of MTV, which hosts addictinggames.com; it only makes business sense to link back to another page hosted by that family of companies. The trouble is that the addictinggames.com contains objectionable content. I went to www.nickjr.com, checked this out for myself, and wrote Nick Jr. the following letter through their "Contact Us" link. If you agree with me, please write to them today, and invite your friends to do the same!

At the bottom of nickjr.com you have a section called "nickelodeon kids and family websites" which contains links to addictinggames.com. Visit that site for just a minute. It is NOT family friendly. Some of the offending categories are: fighting, naughty, bloody, cute shooter, war, and zombie. The list continues.

While it is prudent for parents to supervise their children's use of the internet, it is also prudent to categorize your links correctly. I am appalled that you link to a page with quasi-pornographic games like Perry the Sneak. Pornography has been causing enormous problems in society, and for people in the IT field, pornography addiction is a leading cause of firings! Way to go, NickJr, getting them addicted early on!

While addictinggames.com is a page hosted by MTV, part of your parent company, it is reprehensible to link to that page from this one. I understand that marketing shows that this is a smart thing to do. Morals, on the other hand, prohibit poisoning children in such a fashion.

Individuals must decide what is right and what is wrong, and so must corporations, which consist of individuals making the same decisions day after day. It is an inescapable decision. Please decide to remove all links to addictinggames.com from nickjr, so that children will not be poisoned at such an impressionable age.