Comment Re:Nasties on the net (Score 2, Interesting) 588
It should be well documented by now that nobody believes we are capable of doing this. Every government representative or corporate executive seems to think that we need guidance. And they might have a point.
If there are so many incidents, then clearly there is some sort of issue, correct? It's all well and nice to say that we should supervise or self-censor, but how many people really do that effectively?
At the age of eleven, I was surfing pornography on the world wide web. At age twelve, I was playing highly violent videogames. I was enthralled by Grand Theft Auto 3 at fourteen. I may not have acted upon what I was seeing and playing, but I was still being exposed to it.
I'm not trying to say that we should censor the internet becuase parents don't know how. What I'm saying is that maybe there is a reason behind why everyone tells us we should have this censorship and guidance. Many government debates are started just to make an issue come to light, not necessarily to actually make huge reforms like this one happen.
If there are so many incidents, then clearly there is some sort of issue, correct? It's all well and nice to say that we should supervise or self-censor, but how many people really do that effectively?
At the age of eleven, I was surfing pornography on the world wide web. At age twelve, I was playing highly violent videogames. I was enthralled by Grand Theft Auto 3 at fourteen. I may not have acted upon what I was seeing and playing, but I was still being exposed to it.
I'm not trying to say that we should censor the internet becuase parents don't know how. What I'm saying is that maybe there is a reason behind why everyone tells us we should have this censorship and guidance. Many government debates are started just to make an issue come to light, not necessarily to actually make huge reforms like this one happen.
