I recently read a letter to the editor in a German magazine somewhere saying something along the lines of the following (sorry, can’t find the real quote anymore):
When the last ego-shooter has been banned, when the last porn site has been taken down, and when the last youth has been locked out of all social networking sites, parents will realize that they’ll still have to raise their kids by themselves.
I was reminded of that while reading Tim Lee’s “Project Online Safety” and Other New Internet Safety Initiatives.
“Project Online Safety” and Other New Internet Safety Initiatives
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Wonderfully true. It’s an extremely hard thing to do (raise a child properly) and no amount of external policing is going to relieve the parent of that responsibility. Very well worded. 😄
– NoufalIbrahim 2007-02-08 10:31 UTC
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Well, I think I could be able to teach my son about the dangers of chat rooms, BUT I don’t think I can help him from having the curiosity to go to porn sites, or worse. Even without curiosity the “chance” that he ends up randomly on such sites is pretty high (I’m pretty sure you can end up on a porn site within 3 or 4 clicks from wikipedia).
I would love to be able to let him browse without invading his privacy, knowing that he will not wake up every night because of a nightmare during the next week something like leaving him wandering alone in the child section of a public library.
– PierreGaston 2007-02-08 13:18 UTC