Wednesday, July 16, 2003
How to control how kids use the internet...
OK, in the wake of this story about the 12 yr old who ran away with a 31 yr old she met on the internet, people are up in arms again about how children can be preyed on through chat rooms etc etc.
First of all, it seems she may have been the one doing the preying, we will have to wait and see.
Secondly, how on Earth are people like Carol Vorderman (big campaigner for this sort of thing) going to stop people using chat rooms? They say legislation. OK, let me clue you in a little here. WWW stands for World Wide Web. How the fuck is passing legislation here in the UK going to stop someone hosting a chat room in the US? Or denmark, or Ireland or wherever??
Its just a convenient bandwagon to jump on. Who gets to control the way kids use the internet? Parents. Limit the amount of time your kids spend on it. Get parental control software. Monitor how they use it, or, as a guy at work said today, "make sure you have a reall shit connection speed" ;-)
I've just noticed I've used 'how' twice in the subject line. My English sucks and I even live here.... :-(
OK, in the wake of this story about the 12 yr old who ran away with a 31 yr old she met on the internet, people are up in arms again about how children can be preyed on through chat rooms etc etc.
First of all, it seems she may have been the one doing the preying, we will have to wait and see.
Secondly, how on Earth are people like Carol Vorderman (big campaigner for this sort of thing) going to stop people using chat rooms? They say legislation. OK, let me clue you in a little here. WWW stands for World Wide Web. How the fuck is passing legislation here in the UK going to stop someone hosting a chat room in the US? Or denmark, or Ireland or wherever??
Its just a convenient bandwagon to jump on. Who gets to control the way kids use the internet? Parents. Limit the amount of time your kids spend on it. Get parental control software. Monitor how they use it, or, as a guy at work said today, "make sure you have a reall shit connection speed" ;-)
I've just noticed I've used 'how' twice in the subject line. My English sucks and I even live here.... :-(
