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To: af_vet_rr
I misunderstood you when you mentioned personal information, but it still stands - only parents can take full responsibility for what their kids do on the internet

Chat rooms and webmasters who put children at risk are legally responsible for their acts.

596 posted on 01/20/2006 10:52:50 PM PST by Mojave
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To: Mojave
Chat rooms and webmasters who put children at risk are legally responsible for their acts.

That sounds very liberal, making other people responsible for what your children do online - oh wait, all of this came about under a liberal administration (I'm not talking about Bush, I'm talking about somebody with the initials of "Bill" and "Clinton").

Now I see what Hillary meant with her blockbuster book "It takes a village to raise a child", and its sequel "It takes a government to raise a child".

In a Conservative world, a parent is legally responsible for their children. A good parent is involved with their child's life, and doesn't let them go online without being supervised, and doesn't need the government peeking over their shoulder.
597 posted on 01/20/2006 11:09:12 PM PST by af_vet_rr
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To: Mojave
I'd like you to answer these two scenarios/questions:

1)You leave your firearm laying around in the house, and its loaded or ammo is available. Your kid picks it up and shoots a playmate, or a playmate shoots your kid.

Are you responsible, or is Colt, or Remington, or Ruger at fault?

2)You have HBO and Showtime in your Cable TV package. You also have the parental locks setup. One day you forget to set the locks, and you leave your child alone in the room. Your child flips it over to HBO or Showtime and sees 'Rome' or 'Deadwood' or 'Sopranos' or whatever.

Are you responsible, or is HBO or Showtime or your Cable company responsible?

Bonus Question

You don't secure your computer from your child both physically and with passwords - kid flips a switch, it goes right into the desktop with no password challenge or anything. You have your password in your dialer/connection software saved so that you don't have to remember it.

Your kid easily accesses the internet with no filters, nothing.

Are you responsible for not securing your computer, or is your ISP responsible, or is Google or Yahoo or Free Republic or whatever website(s) they accessed responsible?
598 posted on 01/20/2006 11:17:01 PM PST by af_vet_rr
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