Comment liability (Score 1) 291
In an ideal world, it would be obvious to any reasonable person that like any other tool, a computer/network can and will be used for any number of purposes, including some that lead to harmful influence or harmful behaivour.
The internet is NOT television, and MUST not be used as a baysitting device. To those who want to regulate the internet to protect their children, I ask "what happened to parental supervision?"
The question of liability here is a complex one, and I don't claim to offer any advice here. It's just unfortunate that society's recent trend is to increasingly avoid one's own responsibility in favour of finding others to blame. In this case it threatens the disadvantaged. "The internet has warped my kid's fragile little mind! I'll sue the kindly chaps who donated the computer and set it up."
The internet is NOT television, and MUST not be used as a baysitting device. To those who want to regulate the internet to protect their children, I ask "what happened to parental supervision?"
The question of liability here is a complex one, and I don't claim to offer any advice here. It's just unfortunate that society's recent trend is to increasingly avoid one's own responsibility in favour of finding others to blame. In this case it threatens the disadvantaged. "The internet has warped my kid's fragile little mind! I'll sue the kindly chaps who donated the computer and set it up."
