[Vision2020] Stay out of jail - beware of spyware

[Chasuk]

On 1/15/07, Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Not having kids, I haven't had to worry about this.  I agree that it
> makes sense that actual parenting would beat a software censorship
> product hands down.  I've never used NetNanny or their ilk, and was
> taking it on faith that they did a reasonable job.  I should never have
> recommended something I've never personally used.

That's okay; I was only objecting for "political" reasons.  I abhor
censorship, even when it is ostensibly done under the mantra of "think
of the children!"  There is a lot of truly disturbing stuff on the
Internet, and I have probably seen all of it, or some variety of it,
in my years of Internet perusal.  Some of it is more hideous than can
even be imagined by those who haven't seen it.  However, the majority
of objectionable content is no more heinous than nipple or genitalia,
neither of which I feel have the power to do harm at any age, prudery
aside.

Yes, both of my children were exposed to gratuitous nudity on the
Internet, and both were sexually solicited.  However, I didn't raise
dumb kids, so we handled these situations as they occurred.  Education
is a pretty good inoculation against nearly everything, including 100%
of the potentially dire stuff that can be encountered on the Internet.