| AOL and Google As some spokesperson for Google said: "We define public as anything placed on the public Internet and not blocked to search engines in any way. The primary burden falls to the people who are incorrectly exposing this information."
He is absolutely correct as far as the statement goes. There is of course other issues involving other parties besides the search engine in question.
I hate to say anything good about AOL but if as a parent you take the time to learn how AOL can work it does offer the best protection to children from porn or other "bad" stuff. I used to work for EarthLink both in tech support and sales. It was not uncommon to get calls from people new to the Internet looking for an ISP and concerned about their kids. If they were receptive and wanted to I would give them a heart to heart and frankly tell them on that single issue AOL was better, but there were things with a direct access ISP they could do to insure their kids didn't go where they shouldn't. One of the best was to not "save" their ISP log on password. Consequently the kids could only get online if Mom or Dad logged them in and therefore anyplace they wanted to go would potentially be in front of the parents. But, of course, these issues are a personal and family matter. |
