In one of my postings of this month, I was very concerned with how Linden Labs was using their "Age Verification" methods. Just the same, I do understand and fully agree with they should be doing this. To my opinion, children should never ever be online. Mainly due to what this article has said.
Kids' Internet Safety Alliance Mothers Online Movement
The Internet is much more then having people taking advantage of others. That happens in real life, but we do not stop living our lives in the real world. Articles like this one is not simply throwing out propaganda and saying we all should never use modern technology every again. That would be ever so dumb. As parents raise and train their children, parents should be with their children when they are learning to use the Internet.
Yes, I said, children should not be online, but I did not mean they should not be learning how to use it. With so many reasons why they should be learning how to use the Internet, children needs to be trained on how to deal with the possible dangers of it. Personally I have never been faced with anyone online that wanted to take advantage of me. If I ever had talked with others online, I know they are online. I would never want to ever meet them in person for any reason.
That is why all dating services are scams in every direction. Think about it, believing a complete and total stranger sending you a message online saying, "I love you." That is like opening an email that you know has a possible virus or some other destructive program that could damage your computer and opening it. True, there are number of software one can use to scan for such things, but they are never 100% fool proof, no matter how much you pay for it.
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Either in a 2-D, 3-D Internet world, or even in real live, one has to be objective. If you were in a public place and a person of the opposite sex came up to you and said, "I love you," would you believe that person and fall madly in love with that person? No matter how genuine that person may appear, it does not mean he is telling the truth. It is very true that not everyone is out to get you, but sometimes we must be on the alert as if they were.
No matter what your faith/religion one might be following, no on is required to believe in everyone. There are many text similar to Jeremiah 17:5 of the Christian Bible that clearly states that trusting in mankind blindly and turning your ideologies away from truth and common sense is a very dangerous thing. Trusting in your fellow man is not blindingly following him as mindless slave. We are responsible for our own actions and not of others. When children are at home living with their parents, the parents are the responsible for their own children. Doing what they say is right and very health ideology of life, that if parent are parents and train their children as they should.
There is nothing more abusive towards a children then lack of parental responsibility. Children are not a wind-up doll to get them to do anything you want them to do. They are in the care of mom and dad for the purpose of training them to be adults. When they are ready to leave home, they should have the proper knowledge of how to deal with all life's difficulties. It is when the lack of parental training do so many are suckered into the snare of criminals of all kinds online and off line.
I highly suggest that age verification should be done at the ISP level. Everyone that logs online either in public or in the privacy of the home, one should have to verify their age. In the home when one has to log in by the same account, the account itself must be aged verified at the creation of the account. When or if others in the the house hold use that same account, that person is responsible for that account activities.
Another words if a person that is 18 years or younger uses that account, the one that created that account is responsible for where that young person goes online. I suggest that each family member has their own username and password. With age verification is done at the moment of login, the ISP can control what content that account can see online.
When a person with an account that is under 18 years of age, will be blocked from seeing any adult websites, porn, hate, drugs, shopping, SecondLife, etc. For public Internet activities, they can have it set up that no one under 18 of age can use the computers to go online without having a parent or some legal guardian with them at all times while using these computers. One more thing, these public computers should always block all porn, hate, or other controversial websites.
It is always better to control things at the front gate then monitor everyone after then enter the compounds. This way people like Linden Labs can allow full access to their customers and not have to worry about children entering their systems. SecondLife has a great many wonders, but it is no place for a child to be in. Having a child unattended online is no different then placing him/her in a large city like New York and letting that child roam free.
VerificAge - Making the web a safer place for children
These cities may have it wonders, but it also has very serious dangers. Children does not have the capability to deal with these dangers alone. At their level of brain activities, they will not be able to handle the complexities of life. This can be true for adults new in being online. Ignorance is a very dangerous factor for both children and adults.
When Obama becomes the next President of the United States of America, and he wants to use fully the Internet technologies, then he must make sure that safety online must have it check points when dealing with age. It would be nice to stop all crime online, but let's face it, that is not possible. Only mature mental people with the right knowledge of how to use the Internet properly can rightfully do things online safely and even profitability.
Blessed Be to Isis and you,
Real Name: Brandon Bowers
Online Verification: Who Can You Trust in the Virtual World? - BusinessWeek
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