If you can be bothered, feel free to plough your way through this pointless load of fear-mongering over at the BBC.
If not, I've highlighted the key words in the title of this post.
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
EU Internet Safety Day
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That's another word to add your new lexicon. We've got 'homeownerists', now we can add 'monegrists'
The best 'mongers' I know are the fish type. There used to be one, yes one, in my town until it shut down because due to the actions of mongerism. Luckily we've now got a market with a fish stall.
I'm glad that one blogger picked up on this Mark. My local news, Tyne Tees, ran a piece about this last night from a school where parents were being taught how to monitor their kids surfing on the net. More than one of the parents said they were computer savvy but were taught valuable lessons at the school. I am getting a whif of "money for bullshit" in my nostrils.
As far as I can gather most child abuse comes from relatives of children or someone they know in their extended family. Not having children I know nothing about parenting barring the patently obvious.
The wife treats me like a big kid so maybe I need watching by state sponsored fake charities.
If you're giving your kids unrestricted access to the internet at 5, you're crazy.
FFS Vista has built in controls for this where you can set it so that kids can only go to child-friendly sites.
"More than a quarter of parents were concerned about the content of the website that their five to seven-year-olds visited. "
More than a quarter of parents are failing to parent.
Optimistic Cynic: I suspect that those parents simply don't know how to operate their computers properly, yet do not want to ban their children outright from using them.
Is it just me, or is the logo on the chest of the cartoon character on that BBC page incredibly sinister?
Captcha: kidins
"The best 'mongers' I know are the fish type. There used to be one, yes one, in my town until it shut down because due to the actions of mongerism."
Some friends of mine were telling me about the fish market in their town. Apparantly, it got closed down and replaced by some sort of arts collective. So it's full of shitmongers now.
knirirr,
"I suspect that those parents simply don't know how to operate their computers properly, yet do not want to ban their children outright from using them."
Microsoft are currently advertising the feature right now on TV.
Don't these people have a friendly neighbourhood geek to ask this stuff? I can set up separate accounts and rights on someone's machine to do this in about 20 minutes. You protect your kids, protect your data from accidental destruction and everyone gets their own experience that suits them.
Don't these people have a friendly neighbourhood geek to ask this stuff?
Probably not. Even if it's advertised on television then many people would still not know how to activate such a feature.
Optimistic Cynic said
"Don't these people have a friendly neighbourhood geek to ask this stuff?"
But has the "friendly neighbourhood geek" been vetted by the Neighbourhood Geek Vetting Authority?
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