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Miss America Lauren Nelson now is teaming with a security software company to help educate parents and children about dangers on the Internet. Nelson made Internet safety her platform issue, prompted in part by an experience she and two of her friends had with a stranger they encountered on the Internet when they were about 13. -
2voteThe main source of this panic was fear of stranger-danger. Law enforcement or some other well meaning Internet safety educator would then be brought in to talk to parents. Most of these talks would focus on Internet risks and stress the importance of not posting any personal or revealing information. Parents would go home and talk to their teens, especially girls, and scare them into taking down photos or anything that might lead one of these creepos to hunt them down and show up after school one day.
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2voteToday, it's pretty obvious that having the HR guy at your prospective employer find photos of college beer bongs isn't a good idea. But that Before Net guy running HR isn't going to be in his job forever. Before too long he'll give way to an After Netter with an old MySpace page of her own out there for anyone to find. Will she conclude drunken snapshots are a sign of bad judgment and hire someone else? I very much doubt it.
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1voteSenate Resolution 207 specified that the month of June provides Americans an opportunity to “learn more about the dangers of the Internet.â€
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We fail to Protect The Children when we react with fear & hate to the challenges inherent to interactive media, rather than teaching kids to think critically about what they encounter. We do students a disservice when we provide them with teachers who aren't equipped with the skills to incorporate computers and the internet into education. -
1voteThe Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act would block minors from using public computers to view social-networking sites. But the act's definition of social networking is awfully vague: Any site that "permits registered users to create an online profile that includes detailed personal information" or "enables communication among users" appears to be a candidate for blocking. By those standards, Web sites like Wikipedia and even Amazon would seem to be in danger.
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1voteConfirming fears of parents, educators, and law enforcement officials, 15 percent of high school students who answered a local (Boston area) youth risk survey said they have met in person someone whom they initially had contact with over the Internet. And nearly a quarter reported giving out personal information in cyberspace for reasons other than purchasing goods.
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