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Licensing web pages? What sort of nanny-state big brother place do you want to live in? The internet is one of the last bastions of free speech available. It shouldn't be regulated in the least.
To address the specific points:
1. What is the best way to confront and then deal with Internet-based exploitation of children and other at-risk individiauls?
I've never seen any evidence that the internet has made exploitation of children more prevalant than it has in the past. There have always been child slave/sex rings going back to time immemorial. Prevent the root cause of child exploitation and the internet "problem" goes away. What is that problem? You got me. Better minds than mine have been put to the task for centuries and haven't solved it yet.
2. How can parents most effectively limit what their children are exposed to on the Internet?
They can implement any one of a number of Net Nanny/site blocking programs. Can they be bypassed? Of course. Where there is a will, there is a way. If its really becoming a problem in a specific household, the parent should PARENT. Only allow the kid on to do specific tasks and watch while they do so.
3. How can law enforcement agencies effectively function across country borders rendered instantly porous on the Internet, and where they likely have no legal jurisdiction? Should there be a global Internet police force?
Countries shouldn't be able to police outside of their jurisdictions. If we go down that road, we'll have to not critisize Islam or China, because then THEY would have the rights to prosecute over their borders. That isn't a road we want to go down. We'll also have to get over the fact that not everyone around the world thinks like we do. If its illegal in that other country, let them prosecute on their own terms. If it isn't, well, we'll have to get over it. If the country is condoning violence/exploitation against children, it shouldn't be that hard to put some form of economic pressure on the government. That's how diplomacy generally works.
4. Some active "tracing protocols" be put in place to more easily track down perpetrators?
Its almost ridiculously easy to track someone down like it is.
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