Posted on 01/02/2007 7:55:13 AM PST by Roberts
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 1 — Popular Web sites like YouTube and MySpace have hired the equivalent of school hallway monitors to police what visitors to their sites can see and do by cracking down on piracy and depictions of nudity and violence.
So where do the young thrill-seekers go?
Increasingly, to new Web sites like Stickam.com, which is building a business by going where others fear to tread: into the realm of unfiltered live broadcasts from Web cameras.
The site combines elements of more popular sites, but with a twist. In addition to designing their own pages and uploading video clips, its users broadcast live video of themselves and conduct face-to-face video chats with other users, often from their bedrooms and all without monitoring by any of Stickam’s 35 employees.
Other social networks have decided against allowing conversations over live video because of the potential for abuse and opposition from child-safety advocates. “The only thing you get from the combination of Web cams and young people are problems,” said Parry Aftab, executive director of the child protection organization WiredSafety.org. “Web cams are a magnet for sexual predators.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Technology is letting the predator get closer and closer to the victims. Parents need to be aware and watch out. Allowing children to have internet access in their rooms is dangerous.
People don't deserve freedom; what a terrible thought.
I agree. It needs to be in a communal place.
I use a kvm extender (that displays and can control what is being viewed in my computer room) in the kitchen/dining room. It works well. I know that when on the Internet you are one popup or fat finger away from a nasty web site.
Characterizing a call for parental responsibility and protection of their own children with a restriction of freedom is a terrible thought.
When they are adults they deserve freedom.
Where did I say or suggest otherwise? I just stated the obvious dangers and precautions parents should take.
We're flying A-20 Havoc's in Afghanistan? Who knew?
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There is no A-20. The reporter doesn't have a clue about the military.
Hey, look at it this way.....The site is a "STING" by the FEDS?
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There are dangers besides adult predators. Sometimes teenagers and their friends are their own trouble. Access should be in a common room for children.
Anton is right. You can't lump adults and children together under "people." If you could, there'd be no age limit on driving, voting, drinking, military service, yada, yada, yada.
I'm surprised at you, Old Prof!
"Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites--in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity;--in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption;--in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon the will and appetite is placed somewhere: and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds can not be free. Their passions forge their fetters."
-- Edmund Burke
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