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- Wolfboy, on 10/18/2007, -0/+9While it's a good idea, urging porn sites to behave with more responsibility (and I gave it a digg), parents, too, have an obligation to act responsibly. They must exercise control over how a kid goes online.
The Internet is a gateway to the world. The world is full of bad things and things that are inappropriate for kids. You don't let your children wander the world without supervision. Why would you let them go online without supervision? - kenvsryu, on 10/18/2007, -0/+7Hey don't pawn off the parenting of your children to the internet. Stop playing WoW and take care of your kids.
- gmark13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Agreed.
- GordonV, on 10/18/2007, -0/+4So... How do you solve the problem when the kid is the person who set up the Internet Access?
- pamil, on 10/18/2007, -1/+4No, you don't lose access. You just need to login to see the content. Exactly as you login here to vote!
- SwtRose, on 10/18/2007, -0/+2Telus openly offers pay-per-download adult content and I was reading an article that stated "Telus' decision to offer pornography was partly based on its tracking of the Internet sites accessed by its subscribers. That tracking discovered that about 20 percent of the search terms entered by clients on their mobile Internet browsers were intended to find adult content. Further, 13 of the top 25 websites accessed were pornographic websites of the most explicit kind; and only two of those sites offered any kind of "control" -- asking subscribers to affirm that they were over 18."
I can see where Mihaela and Jon are coming from and what they are doing is admirable. I certainly believe in protecting our children, but I'm not sure if having the blogosphere encourage adult sites to password protect pages is the answer here.
Seeing inappropriate material is not the greatest danger to our children online. Statics show that the average age of a child's first Internet exposure to pornography is 11 years old. 90% 8-16 year olds have viewed porn online ( most while doing homework.)
The greater threat comes from children using Internet communication tools such as chat rooms, network sites, e-mail and instant messaging that can put them at risk of encountering online predators. We should be addressing the concern that comes from Social network sites like MySpace, Facebook and Xanga. I believe in adult supervision and education. Both schools and libraries should have filters in place as a means to prevent children in schools and libraries from accessing pornography.
Statics report that every second - 28,258 Internet users are viewing pornography with 97% of men searching for free porn, 86% searching for playboy, where 64% of women are searching for adult sex and 59% of women are searching for cyber sex. There are 72 million visitors to pornography: Monthly. 34 % of internet users have received unwanted exposure to sexual material online. Internet porn statistics showed there are about 4.2 million pornographic websites constituting 12 per cent of the total websites.
Sadly children's character names are even linked to thousands of porn links. At CyberTipline.org one can report pornographic websites that trick minors into viewing pornographic material. It is a crime to knowingly use a misleading domain name to deceive children into viewing content that is offensive and harmful to minors. Anyone doing so could be looking at spending four years in prison if convicted.
We have a responsibility to help make the Internet safer for our children, but I believe the first and best answer to this growing problem is adult supervision and education. - cotojo, on 10/18/2007, -0/+1Adult sites should be forced to password protect all of their pages online to stop children and young adults coming across this kind of stuff.
Adult supervision obviously plays a part in this too, which is something I have blogged about, but it is an increasing problem.
If people want access to that sort of porn etc then why shouldn't they have it password protected? - cvminc, on 10/18/2007, -0/+1As a parent think it is a great idea. However, we as parents also need to remember to ensure we take the responsibility at home as well and teach our children, not by do as we say and not as we do, but by example. if you don't want your children to view porn sites then don't do it yourself. Secondly, be aware of where your children go and what they do on the computer...It's not meant to be a babysitter.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Idea seems good!!! But how exactly is this going to prevent only small children? Instead, we can lose out access to free sites ;-)
- ussoldier, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Is your child an on-line digg junkie?
Open Letter to web users. Get this on the Times frontpage and make Digg put a password-protected login to prevent small kids from having direct access to a continous stream of lame, sensationalist, and inane content. I WANT to see the whole WEB COMMUNITY in action. Share your thoughts.
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