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Earth, TX
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Re: Can't you see? said by Thaler:said by manfmmd:That's part of the problem, with more and more mothers working and not staying home with the kid(s) (with the father working too), there is not the level of supervision that was available 20-50 years ago. So, now it's the government's job to babysit children which parents planned to have without supervision? I mean...I thought being with the child was part of good parent planning, or did I miss something? I can understand state-provided access spots like Librarys using filters, but what's wrong with an internet cafe offering unfiltered broadband? Most consumers there aren't looking for kiddy-blocks. When "kids" can go in and plop down cash to get internet access, it needs to be filtered. We don't allow them into theatres without ID on R-Rated movies...why should unfiltered internet be different? Show ID and you get unfiltered access, no ID, you get filtered.
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DesdinovaPremium
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Gaithersburg, MD | "We don't allow them into theatres without ID on R-Rated movies"
We can if we want to. The ratings code is a guideline and carries no legal weight. The MPAA is a private organization and has no legal authority at all. A theatre can let a six year-old into an NC-17 movie if they wished. Sure, they'd be open to a lawsuit, but in our current litigious culture, they could also get sued by NOT letting the kid in (though I seriously doubt the latter suit would be won...). |
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said by manfmmd:When "kids" can go in and plop down cash to get internet access, it needs to be filtered. We don't allow them into theatres without ID on R-Rated movies...why should unfiltered internet be different? Show ID and you get unfiltered access, no ID, you get filtered. Most unfiltered internet cafes I've seen won't allow single children to use their stations, or require some kind of parental consent sign-off. Of course, that was a while back, and I haven't stepped into an internet cafe in a long while.
Put it this way, if I was paying a fee to access the internet, as an adult, I should be able to view it in all its glorious splendor. I probably won't, but I'm not paying money for a filter to tell me what I can and can't see. |
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manfmmdPremium
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Earth, TX Reviews:
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| I'm not saying that adults shouldn't be able to view whatever they want to view. I'm saying that we should be able to have tools available to us to allow for easy filtering of content that is or can be considered not appropriate for kids and that the parent be able to USE these tools. Not the ISP, not the Government. Me, the PARENT.
As technology grows and becomes more complicated we need to tools to be able to properly police our children's activities.
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