On Sep 3, 2015, at 18:17, Bhakta Giridhari Damoda Das Jonadon Brah Mahabarat <giridhari@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Your approach seems to be to achieve universal consensus on what "safe and clean" means and then... Well, let me stop there, because that's enough. Good luck with the first part. I'm a father of two, a fifteen year old boy and a ten year old girl. Both of them have grown up never knowing a computer that wasn't connected to the Internet (well, they've seen them, but those ones are called "broken computers"). Neither of them have ever had their access censored by me. Both of them have found things in the world that were scary or confusing using the Internet. I know this because they have both talked to me about it. But they have learned themselves how to find things that are interesting, entertaining or that otherwise suit their tastes and they don't need my help in figuring out what they like, regardless of whether those things are online or in meatspace. I am glad my kids started figuring this stuff out early. I'm glad they continue to figure this stuff out. In my opinion you grow healthy and capable adults by repeatedly challenging them from a tender age until they're old enough to make good decisions on their own. If there *was* a subset of the Internet that contained only content that satisfied some contrived, universal moral standard, I would keep my kids away from it. Their job is to learn about the world, and my job is not to hide it from them. I'm not suggesting that I know better than anybody else, but I thought a data-point that challenged the fundamental premise of what I sense you're trying to achieve might be useful. Joe |