Comments on: MySpace may face legislative crackdown

As November election nears, Republicans say new laws are needed to protect kids from gangs, sex predators on the Net.

[gerard rotonda]

Your PC Is Under Attack

Gerard Rotonda,
Although the power of software downloads to take
control of PCs is well known, the technology has
unaccountably been ignored in debates over Internet
privacy and online regulation. Truste, the main online
privacy accreditation group in the United States, has
voluntarily certified some 2,000 Web sites as safe for
consumers and was initially assailed for refusing to
review software, but that criticism never led to any
action

[gerard rotonda]

Your PC Is Under Attack

Gerard Rotonda,
Although the power of software downloads to take
control of PCs is well known, the technology has
unaccountably been ignored in debates over Internet
privacy and online regulation. Truste, the main online
privacy accreditation group in the United States, has
voluntarily certified some 2,000 Web sites as safe for
consumers and was initially assailed for refusing to
review software, but that criticism never led to any
action

[deadlysporks]

I think we are missing the point...

They say that the whole reason for this supposed crackdown is because they want to keep our children safe. Hey I have nothing against that, I have children of my own. But what are they trying to protect them from? Vulgarity? All they have to do is turn on their ipods or satelite radios. Nudity? Change the channel on your tv. Sexual Predators? Yeah, I think this is the one they are making a big deal about. Here's a novel idea: go after the SEXUAL PREDATORS not our children. Of course we should explain to the kids that they need to be cautious while using the internet, but they need to use the same amount of caution while in any public place (i.e. the mall). The internet is in essence no different than a place such as the mall. The only difference is its really big, and you can easily strike up a conversation with a complete stranger without the akwardness, and I highly doubt they are going to start "carding" people entering the malls. That's why we have jails, to keep those bad things away from us and our children, NOT to keep us away from those bad things. Am I the only one that this makes sense to?

[deadlysporks]

I think we are missing the point...

They say that the whole reason for this supposed crackdown is because they want to keep our children safe. Hey I have nothing against that, I have children of my own. But what are they trying to protect them from? Vulgarity? All they have to do is turn on their ipods or satelite radios. Nudity? Change the channel on your tv. Sexual Predators? Yeah, I think this is the one they are making a big deal about. Here's a novel idea: go after the SEXUAL PREDATORS not our children. Of course we should explain to the kids that they need to be cautious while using the internet, but they need to use the same amount of caution while in any public place (i.e. the mall). The internet is in essence no different than a place such as the mall. The only difference is its really big, and you can easily strike up a conversation with a complete stranger without the akwardness, and I highly doubt they are going to start "carding" people entering the malls. That's why we have jails, to keep those bad things away from us and our children, NOT to keep us away from those bad things. Am I the only one that this makes sense to?

[leslieposey]

All comments welcome

I dont know if i can post this
I have a site Social network
and would like to have comments on how to run
the site to safegaurd minors Parents should be sent an e-mail or letter or something to make the site aware of being used by minors
I have been working on a split site that has two
access pages one for minors and one for adults
according to age they can only see the area that
has been confirmed
http://www.nitenet.net/PHPizabi/ my site example
only for viewing not advertising this site here
please send comments to [e-mail]

[leslieposey]

All comments welcome

I dont know if i can post this
I have a site Social network
and would like to have comments on how to run
the site to safegaurd minors Parents should be sent an e-mail or letter or something to make the site aware of being used by minors
I have been working on a split site that has two
access pages one for minors and one for adults
according to age they can only see the area that
has been confirmed
http://www.nitenet.net/PHPizabi/ my site example
only for viewing not advertising this site here
please send comments to [e-mail]