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Posted: 1 year ago by pocksucket:
Aside from the ignorance and folly of Burnham's general comments about what he intends, this in particular alarms me:
Leaving your child for two hours unregulated on the internet is not something you can do
I should say so. To me that is as inherent as saying that leaving your child for two hours to play with a scalpel is not something you can do.
To my mind the obligation lies with the parent to regulate what the child does or doesn't see.
If there is to be any government interference I'd say it should be to punish the parent or other legal guardian (yes, use those words carefully) if they willfully expose their child to inappropriate material.
Most employers can, should they so desire, manage to block their employees' access to unsavoury matter there's no reason why they shouldn't.
The counter argument of "they might not know how" to me is as valid as someone crashing a car using the defence "I never learned to drive."
If you can't use a computer, you must learn in order to own one. It's that simple.
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Posted: 1 year ago by Boomshank:
« pocksucket : Aside from the ignorance and folly of Burnham's general comments about what he intends, this in particular alarms me:
I should say so. To me that is as inherent as saying that leaving your child for two hours to play with a scalpel is not something you can do.
To my mind the obligation lies with the parent to regulate what the child does or doesn't see.
If there is to be any government interference I'd say it should be to punish the parent or other legal guardian (yes, use those words carefully) if they willfully expose their child to inappropriate material.
Most employers can, should they so desire, manage to block their employees' access to unsavoury matter there's no reason why they shouldn't.
The counter argument of "they might not know how" to me is as valid as someone crashing a car using the defence "I never learned to drive."
If you can't use a computer, you must learn in order to own one. It's that simple. Couldn't agree more. It actually took me a while to stop laughing at the real prospect of having websites apply for a rating before being allowed to be live. I can't believe any sane person with even the slightest grasp of how the internet runs would think that it's either a good or a practical solution.
1) Don't let your kids unattended on the internet.
2) If you have to, grab one of the MANY commercially available products like 'Net Nanny'.
3) Problem solved.
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Posted: 1 year ago by fentwin:
As far as blocking in the workplace. Where I teach we visit USC (Uni. South Carolina) quite often for their online biology resources.
For the first few weeks we were "banned" by our IT dept. because the opening banner for the website read GO COCKS
Well, their mascot is a gamecock (one of them thar fightin' chickens).
You would not believe the struggle we had to endure to get that site "verified".
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Posted: 1 year ago by pocksucket:
« fentwin : As far as blocking in the workplace. Where I teach we visit USC (Uni. South Carolina) quite often for their online biology resources.
For the first few weeks we were "banned" by our IT dept. because the opening banner for the website read GO COCKS
Well, their mascot is a gamecock (one of them thar fightin' chickens).
You would not believe the struggle we had to endure to get that site "verified". The UK school network (JANET) for the longest time blocked searches for Shakespeare due to reference to the Earl of Sussex.
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Posted: 1 year ago by topofall:
W*****s!
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Posted: 1 year ago by Moogle:
It shouldn't be too hard to rate each and every one of the 8 billion webpages... should it?
And when a website gets a rating, then changes its content slightly...?
Or what about the millions upon millions of personal websites?
Do the companies have to pay for the rating or does the government?
Frankly I don't see how such a rating system could ever be a legitimate possibility. Unfortunately, I do see what government would think it a good idea and try to implement it... with sexy results.
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