Let's face it. The Internet is not for children, but they do have the need to learn and experience it. Why? Children are our future. Parents, law enforcers, ISPs, etc., should be there for children. If children needs to learn about all of what the Internet is about, then how can they be safe online?
In all the security, age verifications, and all the child safety software, most teenagers can go around them. To show age verification, it is too simple. I mean it is too easy to give false information. How can Amazon know if a child is buying something on their website? They cannot. A porn site that shows click here if you are 18 or older can be clicked by anyone under 18.
The only way truly for a child to be safe online if parents are there with them while online. Parents can make this a family time then a "Oh No! You want to go on that Internet with all that danger and evil!" The Internet is not evil or dangerous. The Internet is a means of communication. With the fast growing of Social Networking, communication is a very big and important thing.
President Obama and Protecting Children on the Internet
Here is the most important thing, "Linden Labs and the 3-D virtual reality, SecondLife are in the United States of America. Another words they are under the legal jurist diction of the law of the United States of America. laws are to serve and protect. They are not meant to take anything away from law abiding citizens. There are not real security in age verification within SecondLife or any other services online.
The separation hasn't satisfied all observers for safety (Illinois Representative Mark Kirk just won his fourth term campaigning on, among other things, protecting children from "rape rooms" in Second Life) or pragmatics.
The only thing age verifications are good for are for political gains. It does not protect children if they can use false information to cross the line. In turn it is hurting business even the adult kind. Illinois Representative Mark Kirk has a responsibility to protect children, but it cannot be done on the pretence of canceling everyone else in the process. You do not stop child pornography or another child abusive acts by destroying freedoms of law abiding citizens. That is the end result of Age Verifications in SecondLife.
Identity Verification in Second Life
If age is going to be a major problem, what age is right for children to start learning about the Internet? The age of 18 or older is too late for the fast growing technical world we live in. Children not adults needs to start learning about the Internet, but they need supervision while doing it. Letting a child loose online is no different then letting them loose in any given city, big or small. I can tell you this, the Internet is much lager then all the cities combined.
On the subject of "rape rooms" in SecondLife, as with any 3-D virtual reality, it is not physically real. I agree, children should not be in sexual websites or 3-D virtual rooms, but if one can believe they never been to one, Go join that purple dinosaur, Barney. The reality of it, they do go to these websites and other online adult services. The mainly go there for the curiosity of it.
How many can remember their childhood when you were so curious in wanting to look at something or do something because you were told not to do it? The problem with children, they cannot foresee the possible dangers of their actions. That is why parental supervision is a must online. When it comes to privacy and security of them and the family, then children have not real privacy. This is not their fault, so parents do not stop doing your jobs.
Blessed Be to Isis and you
Real Name: Brandon Bowers
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