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Im utterly disgusted by this. This is going to be so counter productive its a joke.

Ive long been doing things for child safety online.

I dont know weather or not the government know its pointless, or if its being suggested on purpose.

I have my suspicions. Firstly, its a knee jerk response to make it look as though they are doing something about the 3 blokes recently caught planning a rape of 2 young girls online.

Secondly, if it went through (which is stupid beyond belief) then they could say that xxxx amount of funds is being used to tackle sex offenders online.

As many people know, its a pointless gesture. If someone has to be monitored online, then they shouldnt be given access at all. And even then there is internet cafes, and I somehow doubt they check that they dont have a computer all the time.

They can even easily do it on a mobile phone.

Its another joke in terms of defending children online, from when that stupid organisation along with that silly moo Carol Vorderman shut down the MSN chatrooms and said it was a great victory. Evenyone with a bit of expirence with the internet knew it was a bad idea, simply driving the kids to less moderated sites.

So is this to make them look good, or simple stupidity?

The simplest and by far most effective way for a child safety online is drilling into them never to give details out, and keeping the computer in the living room.
 
This will be as effective as lie detectors (which don't work either). Still it plays well in the media and gives that annoying talking head John Carr a chance to raise his profile. :hrmph:
 
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Spot on Old Dude.
The government seems to think that making a law changes something. As if criminals will change what they're doing because of it - what a joke - or it would be if it weren't tragic.

But the papers and even BBC are as bad, reporting that the government is "tackling" or having a "crack down" on the problem when they should be pointing out how ludicrous the action is.

No doubt they will point to the huge reduction in gun crime since possession of handguns was made illegal. I don't think.

But we vote them in and keep them there, so it must be our fault.
 
l agree wholeheartedly, from my online back round l know all too well how easy it is to hide online etc (peeved off some hackers in the past in a chat room had major problems but it bucked up my ideas and l learned allot because of it) this wont help, in fact msn chat rooms been shut down was the worst moved EVER now they just use MSN and chat one on one...

hell heres a story, around a year or so ago my sister had met up with some guy who added her whom she met via a forum, they chatted for a while and eventually moved to msn after a few chats the person at the other end disided to share his webcam, my sister not minding disided to allow it and at the other end was a 13yo kid after so many minutes this kids disided to stand up and take his pans off waving his genitals at the cam... my sister was disgusted her been an adult (was 18 at the time) she blocked him and gave me his email, turns out it was his families email and my email reached his parents by a twist of fate l also personally knew his parents and he was grounded and after was always supervised by his parents, suffice to say he didnt like me after that however this is the kind of thing that should be stopped.. what needs to be done is moderated chat rooms and also take off the private chat features and make them privileged to moderators only.
 
in fact msn chat rooms been shut down was the worst moved EVER now they just use MSN and chat one on one...

It might have been a smarter move to make a free authentication system available to children through their school, so that the better well moderated websites could verify their age when they register and make it more difficult for undesirables to impersonate a kid.
 
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then again myspace, live journal, face-pic, and other such sites are just as bad promoting such conduct...
 
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