Netizens get younger and younger and parents are more concerned than ever about online content.

Nearly every mother nurses a hope – the hope of keeping her child far away from Internet pornography and indecent content. In January 2010, a group of mothers were selected from a shortlist to be deputized for the "Mom Jury," dedicating themselves to reporting on unseemly information provided by websites, in an effort to make sure children's best interests are the first served.

Statistics show that Chinese netizens tend to be younger and younger. Among 384 million Internet users, 1.1 percent is under 10, and 31.8 percent are aged 10 to 19. In order to safeguard children from on-line pornography, at the beginning of January 2010, watchdog software was piloted in elementary and middle schools nationwide to filter, block or delete the pages with pornographic or violent content.

But it is indisputable that no device can be more effective than the watchful eyes of mothers for guarding the innocence of young minds. Zong Chunshan, director of Beijing Legal and Psychological Counseling Center for Adolescents and Youth, believes that human judgment is a vital supplement to high technologies in the combat against on-line evils. In decades past, Zong dedicated himself to youth crime prevention and the psychological education and self-protection of teenagers. Inspired by some campaigns supported by non-governmental organizations in the West and designed and run by ordinary mothers, he put forward the proposal of setting up a Mom Jury. The idea was put into reality this year with support of the Beijing Association of Online Media (BAOM).

By January 2010, BAOM selected the first group of adjudicators for the Mom Jury, and Zong Chunshan was among them. They are supposed to report indecent pages, propose countermeasures, alert the related government authorities to take action, and follow the measures recommended to achieve the desired effects.

According to jury constitution guidelines, membership is composed of a variety of professional fields and different classes, so teacher, lawyer, migrant worker and housewife alike all have their say, but at least 70 percent of a jury should be parents of elementary and middle school students.