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1 posted on 07/21/2014 11:58:26 AM PDT by Morgana
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I still don’t understand why a child needs an iphone.


2 posted on 07/21/2014 11:59:38 AM PDT by punknpuss
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“why are farts so awesome,” LOL!!!


3 posted on 07/21/2014 12:01:55 PM PDT by MNDude
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To: Morgana

Why does a child need an IPhone??


7 posted on 07/21/2014 12:04:00 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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"his iPhone"

There's your problem.

9 posted on 07/21/2014 12:05:18 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (The GOP-e scum enlisted Democrats to steal the Republican primary. The GOP-e can go to Hell.)
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Why does any kid need an iphone, or any other cell phone until they are of an age to work and pay for their own? It is just an invitation to mischief or worse, never mind a distraction at school...


11 posted on 07/21/2014 12:06:32 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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Sounds like a 10-year-old boy who may be gay and may have covered it up by sharing supposed female “crushes” with his family. Not a family that’s going to be well prepared for it if that is the case.


13 posted on 07/21/2014 12:07:50 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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Two words...

Parental Controls.

Built right into every iOS device. Work pretty good too...


17 posted on 07/21/2014 12:10:50 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (Tri nornar eg bir. Binde til rota...)
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Unfortunately, there really isn't a way around it other than living off of the grid.

It can be mitigated by setting up protections on your home network but phones come with Internet access through the telephone network which is outside of your home network. There is probably a way to control it though.

I image the simplest way to control it is to force all access through your home wifi network and not include your son or daughter on your dataplan. They really don't need Internet access on their phone anyway.

23 posted on 07/21/2014 12:16:12 PM PDT by dhs12345
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Yea right mom, keep believing that.


28 posted on 07/21/2014 12:20:14 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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First World Problems.


32 posted on 07/21/2014 12:25:44 PM PDT by dfwgator
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...and no one says a word about the website being accessed by a minor - why isn't the webmaster / owner held responsible for exposing minors to this stuff.

The kids don't need a phone anyway-

37 posted on 07/21/2014 12:30:33 PM PDT by Revelation 911
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My kids know that every electronic device in the house — except mine — will be smashed instantly upon discovering any untoward search (and not replaced for years). Done it before, for other reasons. Do have all the parental controls available.


54 posted on 07/21/2014 12:46:01 PM PDT by steve86 ( Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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providence/natuer gave us all those body parts and the functionality that goes with them. it is the woman who has issues with pictures of the body parts and by transitivity with providence/nature. the attitude of the woman that sex is shameful is just passing on her psychological trauma to her son, who is the victim. i wonder what she does to him when they visit a zoo. what kind of commotion does she throw up then? “don’t look, those bad zebras are doing IT! don’t watch!! bible this!! bible that!! blablabla!!” sheesh.


61 posted on 07/21/2014 12:51:29 PM PDT by SteveH (First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.)
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You have to explain weirdos to your kids at a really young age in today's world. If properly done their curiosity will subside before it even begins.
66 posted on 07/21/2014 1:08:59 PM PDT by right way right (America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
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“I pointed out that all his crushes have been on girls....”

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That’s some dangerous talk. The school’s staff may not approve, think it is wrongfully sexist and may want to have a few words with you.


68 posted on 07/21/2014 1:10:53 PM PDT by 353FMG
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I think I first heard, “I’m a young stenographer. My name is Sally Brown”, when I was about 10. It seemed to check out with most of what I’d gathered from about age 7.


71 posted on 07/21/2014 1:19:13 PM PDT by onedoug
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“[H]is search terms quickly shifted in a more disturbing direction. “Naked people.” “Naked boys.” “Naked men.” “What is gay?”


“I said to them, ‘Whoever has any gold, let them tear it off.’ So they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf.’” -Exodus 32


74 posted on 07/21/2014 1:39:24 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.)
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Naked people.” “Naked boys.” “Naked men.” “What is gay?” The browser history was even worse – search terms like that naturally led him straight to the bowels of the internet – including a porn video that traumatized me just by reading the title. I didn’t have the heart to watch it, but knowing my little boy probably had – I was shattered.

The kid is 9 or 10. He likely was laughing his butt off at every stage of his investigation, and following it with, "What ELSE they got on here?!?"

79 posted on 07/21/2014 2:41:41 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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Real Bright - give a TEN YEAR OLD open access to the Internet.

Hate to break the news to her now, but there are phones that DO NOT play pornographic movies, or any movies, for that matter.


84 posted on 07/21/2014 3:51:53 PM PDT by BobL
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While I am sure there is a lot of “freely” accessible, i.e. “free” porn, even amateur porn on the worldwide interwebs, I remember about 8 years ago when one of my nephews was about 10 years old and his mom discovered, when she looked at the web browser history on their home computer that he’d been searching the evening before (when he was allegedly doing homework) for “Girls Gone Wild” and “Hot Naked Women” and “Sexy Co-eds” and “Barely Legal” and other such similar (hum) terms.

His mother was understandably upset and then irate. When her husband came home from work, she showed him what their son had been “searching” for and told him that they both needed to 1) have a long talk with their son, 2) punish him if he tried lying about it and 3) take away all computer (unless closely supervised and for homework only) and all video game privileges. Her husband agreed but did tell his wife that he was at least somewhat relieved his son was searching for naked women and not something worse.

The both confronted my nephew and at first he tried to deny it; “I don’t know what you are talking about”, “It wasn’t me”, “I didn’t do it”. But then he finally broke down and admitted that he had searched for those sites. However, in his defense, he told them; “I didn’t really see much. All those sites wanted a credit card to really see the nasty stuff. It’s really kinda like false advertising”.

And later that night she and her husband followed the cached web browser links prior to deleting them and sure enough, while there were racy, semi-naked, very suggestive pictures on the sites’ home pages, they couldn’t get past at least the home pages on the sites he had searched and clicked on without entering a credit card number.

FWIW, I’ve been using the internet since the early 90’s; regularly, for work, for research on all sorts of topics that interest me or for further research sometimes on FR articles and sometimes just for my random entertainment and being a woman in her 50’s, living alone with no children, I don’t have parental controls or filters on my internet browsers or on my ISP and while I have certainly never purposefully searched for porn and I’m not about to anytime soon, but perhaps more importantly, I’ve never accidently come across any hard core porn sites while doing an internet search and believe me, I’ve probably searched up some rather weird, albeit not specifically pornographic terms, that I would have thought after the fact, might have. I really don't get the "One day I innocently searched for zucchini recipes and suddenly found myself on a hard core porn site.”

101 posted on 07/21/2014 5:44:18 PM PDT by MD Expat in PA
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