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- pbaehr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+39In related news, "Your Computer is not a Babysitter."
- ArthurSucks, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22Nobody robs or rapes you on google... unless you use Internet Explorer.
- jhunt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16No kidding. Supervise your ***** children; the computer is not here to do it for you.
- truspector, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13I think Bourbon Street during Mardi Gras is a little more dangerous.
- Lumiras, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Oh, really? You can easily go to porn sites on the internet? This is just shocking news to everyone, I'm sure.
If you child is on the internet, you should know what you child is doing on said internet. It is not the responsibility of the websites to keep underaged kids away, it's the parents' responsibility to have a little bit of sense and know what their kids are doing - cainrok, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Children can't get to these sites in the first place because the internet is tubes and they are filled, and you must wait your turn.
Ted Stevens knows what I'm talking about.
His staff tried to send him the internet and it took 2 DAYS!!! - tdhurst, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11No! I wll NOT have my children subject to pornography, sex or ANYTHING that has to do with nudity! My god, what would happen to their fragile little minds? I would MUCH rather subject them to graphic violence because it will not destroy their morality.
Exceptions...a mutilated dead body on TV is okay, as long as private parts are not visible... - nudedave, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Yea this should be the parents job. There is software that lets you control this.
The Internet is really a huge step forward in free speech and the empowerment of the masses (I'm neglecting the digital divide here I know). But that is a double edged sword, with free speech you have people saying things you don't like or want your kids to hear. Or there is the other angle, we could have no free speech and you can only say what someone warrants as "permissible". I think that the world can have free speech, but it does not mean that you need to have free speech in your house. Parents already control what their kids watch, listen to, learn, and now they need to do the same for the computer. The problem comes when parents don't know how, and the kids know more than the parents :) - gmurray, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6This is like letting terrorists push us to taking away our own freedoms. The internet is a giant step in the right direction for freedom of speech. We all need to be individually responsible.
- ryke12, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7correction: letting children free on the internet is like letting them roam around the city IN GENERAL.
Letting your child roam around the red-light district is more akin to leaving a porn site up on the screen AND TELLING YOUR KID TO GO ON THE COMPUTER. - neozeed, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Soon only terrorists will use the internet!
- Modulo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@xutopia - try to stay even remotely on topic kthx
- sillygates, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9some parents just shelter their kids too much. Censorship is not the way.
- shark0302, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4ALL I'm going to say is that this brings to mind the real issue today. parents not watching there kids and letting xbox, computers, game cube, DS, and other forms of entertainment BABY sit there kids
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4How else will little Johnny learn about sex? Parents don't teach them! When I was a kid, it was dad's Playboys in the bottom draw on the left behind the red shirt. ;)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Then
Don't
Let
Your
F-ing
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Run
Free
On
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Internet!
It's really very, very simple. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The internet is an adult playground. If they want a safe place for kids to play in this adult playground, they must build a fence and keep the kids in. It's parents responsibility. The internet is not a babysitter!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+11Really? During Mardi Gras, children can observe transvestite prostitutes engage in sexual activities with farm animals while wearing nipple clamps and bleeding out of their anuses? Because I can easily find that on the Internet after a 10 second Google search.
(Not that I timed myself or anything...) - Nightfall, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I find the testimonies gut wrenchingly funny because any MMORPG player knows that taking a game in moderation is the best way to go. Sounds like a lot of the people posting on that site have invested months of playtime and sacrificed everything else. Taking any game in moderation is the best way to go, so why bitch about WoW when the PEBKAC (problem exists between keyboard and chair).
- Phyltre, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't think porn is a destructive thing for kids.
The parents just think it is. - Hochler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yea... 13-year-olds watch porn. So do 12-year-olds.
- rolandog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I only came here to read a 'tubes' reference. Thankyouverymuch. LOL
- Murdats, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2and making sure the government filters what their kids should be looking at on all those mediums
if their children are exposed to something undesirable, its the neglect of game companies for making games for kids over 12 and the government for letting the parents buy unacceptable games for their kids - leobaby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You know, I'm still surprised every time I see a family pushing a stroller down Bourbon Street; and little surprises me after living in New Orleans most of my life.
- tsbardella, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is a stupid analogy - I was taken to Mardi Gras in the French Quarter lots of times as a child we got all kinds of beads and dabloons and fun little toys it was great.
- Trenton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'd have to agree with this:
"I don't like that innocent kids can click on stuff like that," Kiesman said. "What you view as entertainment as an adult shouldn't be entertainment for 13-year-olds." - cycletronic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I do like this analogy better than the "letting them run around a red light district," but I would say it is more like letting your child roam in a city in with signs pointing to the red light district everywhere.
- phatalbert, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Most kids are responsible enough to not do anything too stupid. I saw let them explore and have their fun and risk rather than over shelter.
- betobeto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Or to sum it up: "Parents" that are actually anything but that. Spare me the biological details.
- dc649, on 03/17/2009, -0/+0You should use free online video sites that have a Safe Search setting. Take a look at this one:
http://FreeVideoOnline.info - Ace2005, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Your Computer is not a Babysitter... Yet
- xutopia, on 10/12/2007, -11/+2I run http://www.wowdetox.com/ and some of the stories people posted on there as testimonies are heart wrenching. While the site only catters to people wishing to leave World of Warcraft (or people who already have) it's no doubt that people use the internet or MMORPG gaming so they don't have to put up with the real world. Soon I'll be adding a self help section to the site to encourage people to find solutions.
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