Internet Not Bad For Kids At All!

[The Elder Brain]

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/14/0012255

"We're all familiar with the claim that it's horribly dangerous to allow our children on to the Internet. It's long been believed that the moment a child logs on to the Internet, he will experience a flood of inappropriate sexual advances. Turns out this isn't an accurate representation of reality at all. A high-profile task force representing 49 state attorneys general was organized to find a solution to the problem of online sexual solicitation. But instead the panel has issued a report (due to be released tomorrow) claiming that 'Social networks are very much like real-world communities that are comprised mostly of good people who are there for the right reasons.' The report concluded that 'the problem of child-on-child bullying, both online and offline, poses a far more serious challenge than the sexual solicitation of minors by adults.' Turns out the danger to our children was all just media hype and parental anxiety."

IMO if you send them a random link to oh...I dunno, say 1 Guy 1 Jar and they click on it, they were ASKING FOR IT

[AaronHeld]

The only way your gonna see inappropriate things is if you search for it sure some sites have questionable ads, and some nudity(some sites that have nothing to do with porn it's kind of annoying) but most of those sites kids shouldn't be logging on to either.

The Internet can be really helpful it's to bad it's flooded by bad things that give it a bad name. My parents think the internet is the closest thing to hell on earth haha they don't realize how much benefits there is to it so many things you can just look up and find the answer.

[sonnyfromda02]

It is a lot calmer compared to when I first got the internet. I was using the internet before Safe Search and Pop-Up blockers were common.

[Hugo_Fuchs]

Parents are more aware now. Originally, you couldn't search without hitting porn. Now it's less common unless you're looking. Still, they could've gone with the .xxx, .sex, etc, endings and told porn places, you will be blocked if you use the .com, .net, etc. That inititive was blocked by people who thought it would contribute to pornography. Morons. Those are the same people who think making laws against prostitution will stop it. You can regulate these things, and blunt the more extreme, but so long as someone thinks they can make money and/or get away with it, they'll do it. Of course, the definition of what pornography is can vary from place to place.

[WesScog]

Who cares if it would contribute to pornography? Even if you find it unsavory, it's not an illegal activity.

Plus, it would clear up countless addresses for legitimate use, while clearing up millions of other addresses for porn use. Not to mention it would be so easy just to block all .XXX addresses in any safesearch things.

[knightly]

I have a router that logs all of the addresses being visited based on the originating internal address so I can see what sites my kids are accessing. They are aware of this as well, that knowledge works as a pretty good deterent. I've hardly had to use it at all. Here's the script I use to resolve the addresses (the grep in the loop with the "entry" variable is looking for the rule number from the firewall, in this case, 1080):


#!/bin/sh
for entry in `cat /var/log/system.log | grep 1080\ Accept | cut -d ' ' -f 11 | cut -d ':' -f 1 | sort -u`
do
for host in `host $entry | cut -d ' ' -f 5 | rev | cut -b 2- | cut -d '.' -f -2 | rev`
do
echo $host | grep -v \(
done
done