Comments on: Safeguard the Web for children

By: kukuman

kukuman — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:25:15 +0000

I still think it is a good idea to do it…

Nobody can stop the willing boy but at least the non willing boy will not be force accidentally to see it.

By: Andrew Ian Dodge

Andrew Ian Dodge — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:04:16 +0000

The way you safe-guard the web for children is for parents to get off their arse and do their job of parenting. They should monitor their children’s behaviour and not expect the rest of us to be their nannys.

By: Bernard

Bernard — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 06:59:01 +0000

Aiks.. perhaps my comment got eaten up?

By: Bernard

Bernard — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 06:57:39 +0000

Definitely parents have to monitor the children. But i think that there is a way to reduce access to pornography to children by putting up a barrier for them. No need age certification documents… just having a credit card (which is easily verifiable online) is good enough.

By: kat

kat — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 23:33:07 +0000

I had a password protected blog for 3 years, not because it’s content was of an adult nature, it’s because it contained posts about very personal things I only wanted to share with a certain grouping of people. It did work. People without the password could not get in.

I think there’s some miscommunication with this safeguard the web thing.
I do agree that porn and adult themed sites should be pass protected, but they should be allowed a certain amount of content and information on the entrance page to let people know exactly what they would be finding inside.
I wouldn’t want any crotch shots or money shots on that entrance page, but maybe covered up (black bars etc) images and then text letting people know what the website contained after you verified your age or paid by CC.

Make sense?

By: aylee

aylee — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:04:00 +0000

Oh ya… your comment avatars are so cool. Do you use a plugin for it?

By: Gina

Gina — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:59:57 +0000

I think they are focusing on the wrong issue here. It is not about having adult websites lock down so children do not happen upon them, it is about the parents of these children being responsible and knowing what exactly and where exactly their children are going online. It is about setting limitations from home, and monitoring what your kids do online. That is where it should all begin.

-Do not have a computer in the kids room where they are free to roam online whenever.
-Set a time that they can be online, sit with them, be involved where they go, and what they do online.
-Add software to the computer to block out the websites, and or set the ones they can visit.
-Monitor, monitor, monitor.

Just my $.02.

By: lilian

lilian — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:01:57 +0000

I got a tag for this and took it up on goodwill. I doubt it will make a difference cos ultimately our kids are our own responsibilities. No amount of control will help unless the parents take that responsibility.

By: skeet

skeet — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:46:35 +0000

Owen, I love your rotating avatars for guest commenters! I keep coming back to see who I’ll be next! :0D

By: Mephala

Mephala — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:36:33 +0000

I wrote mine up several days ago too.

Education goes a long way and if informing one parent to be more conscious of what his or her child might be exposed to, I’ve done my job.

Even better, if one porn site operator switches to a password-protected site because of a post someone wrote on this topic, then we’ve succeeded.

It’s all about changing the world one person at a time.