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Dangers of the Internet

Postby Anonymizer » Wed May 25, 2011 7:47 am

Mark Zuckerberg: children should be allowed to use Facebook
A lot of people exaggerate the supposed dangers of the internet and how children might be in some way harmed as a result of using the internet. It's hard to take these claims seriously. In the real world children can be injured or killed. On the internet they might be exposed to an idea that makes them uncomfortable. A few years ago there was a little hysteria over child abductions which were due to meeting people on the internet. The problem is that there never were any such abductions. There were teenagers who communicated with adults and arranged to runaway with their assistance, but this has always happened. In fact, the telephone facilitates such arrangements much more often than the internet! (And that's been happening long before the internet came into existence!) In this article Zuckerberg talks a little about why children should be allowed to use Facebook.
The under-13s should be allowed to use Facebook, the social network’s founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has said. Speaking at a summit on innovation in schools and teaching in Newark, New Jersey, Mr Zuckerberg said that the current age limit would be challenged “at some point”. Claire Perry, Conservative MP for Devizes, who has campaigned for online safety, said that ““I would be very uncomfortable about extending this and I think it’s very, very irresponsible of Facebook to be suggesting it.” “With close parental supervision all of these social networking sites can be interesting and enjoyable. But I know from my own experience it is all too easy for a young child to get involved in situations that I think are really uncomfortable,” she said. Facebook’s usual 13-and over age limit elsewhere is dictated by the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which became Federal Law in America in 1998. Current UK legislation does not, however, preclude Facebook from being used by under-13s but the site’s own terms and conditions do. The US is currently reviewing its COPPA legislation. In Spain, only those children 14-and-over are permitted to use Facebook because of national legislation.

LINK: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/8533429/Mark-Zuckerberg-children-should-be-allowed-to-use-Facebook.html
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Re: Dangers of the Internet

Postby Anonymizer » Wed May 25, 2011 9:20 am

MY TWO CENTS: In my estimation, 20% of the population are technophobes. They fear technology and they are quick to jump to the conclusion that technological advances are somehow threatening to them and are therefore bad. On the opposite end of the spectrum, 20% of the population are technophiles. They embrace new technologies and get excited about new gadgets and actively involve themselves in the use of said technologies. The middle 60% of the population takes a wait and see attitude and may be swayed by outspoken extremists on either end of the spectrum, depending, at least partially, on the reality of how a given technological advancement actually impacts society. The problem is that PERCEPTION has a lot to do with how the public evaluates a given technology and urban myths often evolve that sway public sentiment, at least temporarily, until the myths are proved to be false. Many people jump to conclusions without evidence and see evil where there is none just because of rumors, misperceptions, etc. Eventually the truth is usually separated from the BS, but that process can sometimes take an agonizingly long time and may not happen within an individual's lifetime.
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Re: Dangers of the Internet

Postby Anonymizer » Wed May 25, 2011 10:17 am

Online Predation An Exaggerated Problem
Most supposed "predators" are just teens pranking other teens. The gullible ones think that they've actually being propositioned by an adult pervert and the smart ones just laugh it off and realize that it was a joke. The problem is that the gullible ones grow up and become social workers and law enforcement officers!
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Perception of Internet danger has been heightened thanks to the TV show "To Catch a Predator" and inaccurate reports stating that "one in five children have been sexually solicited by a predator." That statistic is a misquote from a 2000 study by the Crimes Against Children Research Center. The data (which, based on a 2005 follow-up study, was revised to one in seven) is based on a survey that asked teens if they had in the last year received an unwanted sexual solicitation.

But many - possibly most - of those solicitations were from other teens, not from adult predators. What's more, most recipients didn't view them as serious or threatening. "Almost all youth handled the solicitations easily and effectively" and "extremely few youth (two out of 1,500 interviewed) were actually sexually victimized by someone they met online," reported the authors of the study.

LINK: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/04/scitech/pcanswer/main4570891.shtml
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Re: Dangers of the Internet

Postby Anonymizer » Thu May 26, 2011 7:25 am

shadylady wrote:Online Predation An Exaggerated Problem
Most supposed "predators" are just teens pranking other teens. The gullible ones think that they've actually being propositioned by an adult pervert and the smart ones just laugh it off and realize that it was a joke. The problem is that the gullible ones grow up and become social workers and law enforcement officers!

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Well put!!! I don't want to put down ALL social workers or ALL law enforcement personnel by painting with too broad of a stroke, BUT many people who wind up working in these areas have what is sometimes called an Authoritarian Personality Style. These people don't have a healthy distrust of those in leadership positions. Rather they tend to do what they are told without question. Also they tend not to be able to think rationally or logically. Their thought patterns are strictly based on reaching a goal. They search exclusively for confirmatory evidence and easily disregard information that might call their assumptions into question. In other words, if they think you're a suspicious character there will be no convincing them otherwise. People with an authoritarian personality style are easily mislead by leaders who speak with confidence and force, which is basically the story of how Adolph Hitler came into power and how millions of people (not just those of the Jewish faith) wound up being put to death in death camps. Authoritarian leaders generally like to have an easily identified enemy based on easily identifiable characteristics (terrorists, perverts, people of a particular ethnicity, etc.) and use the perceived threat of this enemy to rally people into supporting them.
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Re: Dangers of the Internet

Postby Anonymizer » Fri May 27, 2011 7:35 am

Chinese Prisoners Forced To Play World Of Warcraft!
Here's a "Danger of the Internet" that I never thought of before. But I'm not going to feel too bad about this kind of exploitation since it beats forced labor out in the hot sun!
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The Guardian, who broke the story, said it spoke to the 54-year-old former inmate (whose real name was witheld) claims he and other prisoners were forced to work 12-hour shifts in front of computers, building up virtual money for the prison bosses to sell - for real money. “Prison bosses made more money forcing inmates to play games than they do forcing people to do manual labour," Liu told the Guardian. "There were 300 prisoners forced to play games. We worked 12-hour shifts in the camp … The computers were never turned off.” The practice, known as gold farming, involves players doing repetitive tasks to build up virtual currency, earn weapons and advance characters which can then be sold to other gamers.

LINK: http://www.newsy.com/videos/chinese-prisoners-forced-to-play-online-games/
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Re: Dangers of the Internet

Postby Anonymizer » Sat May 28, 2011 8:08 am

Zuckerberg: Kids on Facebook is 'No Problem'
Kids just lie about their age now and so I'm not sure how this really changes anything. In fact, it makes it easier to determine who the kids are since they won't need to lie anymore. That makes it easier for Facebook to address any real or imagined safety concerns.
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Re: Dangers of the Internet

Postby shadylady » Tue May 31, 2011 7:48 am

Can We Kill Off This Myth That The Internet Is A Wild West That Needs To Be Tamed?
This is another case of leaders without a clue trying to do something about something they don't even understand. Their ignorance is overwhelming and they believe in things that aren't true and think they need to solve problems that don't exist. If they just took the time to learn about the internet instead of reacting to the first half-witted complaint about the internet, they'd be able to spend their time dealing with real problems instead of imagined problems. But such is politics and life for that matter...
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We recently wrote about Nicolas Sarkozy's push to convince the tech world and the "digerati" that it's time to clamp down on internet freedoms. While he was more blatant and direct about it, we're seeing a similar theme elsewhere, and frequently see such claims in our comments as well. It's all based on this idea that the internet is some sort of "wild west" that is a haven for all sorts of illegality, and that needs to come to an end. The problem is that this is a myth. It makes for a compelling narrative, but it's a myth nonetheless.

LINK: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110527/13281714462/can-we-kill-off-this-myth-that-internet-is-wild-west-that-needs-to-be-tamed.shtml
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Re: Dangers of the Internet

Postby a2z » Fri Jun 10, 2011 1:03 pm

Sexting 101: How not to get caught!
How to send naked pics without getting caught! :dizzy:
(Note to the brain dead morons out there who can't recognize a joke when they hear/see one: This is supposed to be funny and so don't think it's really serious advice.)
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Re: Dangers of the Internet

Postby James Sel » Fri Jun 10, 2011 5:12 pm

A2Z that was pretty good, thx 4 the post :biggrin:
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Re: Dangers of the Internet

Postby MRGREEN » Sat Jun 11, 2011 7:58 pm

I bet you never expected that our elected officials would be one of the dangers of the internet!
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Re: Dangers of the Internet

Postby James Sel » Sun Jun 12, 2011 7:32 am

MRGREEN wrote:I bet you never expected that our elected officials would be one of the dangers of the internet!
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Re: Dangers of the Internet

Postby shadylady » Tue Jul 05, 2011 7:57 am

10 year old boy is apparent target of child predators on YouTube
Notice that this story is framed in the most sensationalistic manner possible. Once you get into the story it turns out that they don't know anything about who actually was involved. It's far more likely that the "threats" were issued by teenagers pranking the boy than by "child pornographers" as suggested in the news story. This is typical of the way these kinds of stories are portrayed. The tendency is to write a headline and lead that exaggerates the threat level and then to provide very little to back up the initial claims. In fact, I'm willing to bet that it's quite possible that the people who talked the boy into posing nude were little girls as claimed to begin with and that later threats came from others who stumbled upon the video later on. This kind of melodrama makes a mountain out of a molehill and that would be harmless enough except that this gets turned into wasteful legislation and intervention that does more harm to the "victim" than the actual act that everyone is all in a huff about!
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