[9013] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: sleaze
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rose Marie Holt)
Tue Dec 14 19:30:42 1993
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1993 16:25:35 -0800 (PST)
From: Rose Marie Holt <rmholt@u.washington.edu>
To: Bob Blackmun <rrb@pcfs1.uncc.edu>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9312142133.AA08406@pcfs1.uncc.edu.>
And dirty words/jokes are the first things kids learn when learning a
foreign language, too. Exposure to vulgarity will not damage kids. It's
how they learn to react to it that determines their level of
civilization. That's the parents/schools/associated cultures' job, I agree.
Still, seems like some sort of regulation could and should be put in place,
for the kid's moral and the parent's bank account protection, a la
phone sex, for the legitimate porn/adult industries/groups that want to use
the net.
On Tue, 14 Dec 1993, Bob Blackmun wrote:
> Unfortunately, it is trivially easy to send e-mail, post to newsgroups, etc.
> with a fake address. Creating a 'safe environment' for young children is going
> to be a real challenge, especially in the face of people who want to escape from
> the 'safe envrionment'.
>
> In case anyone thinks that this is a new problem. see the article titled
> 'cybersex' in Wired magazine -- available from Wired's gopher (at
> gopher.wired.com). In summary, the article demonstrates that new technology has
> almost always been used to disseminate sexual material first! As in the past,
> the answer must ultimately be found in supervision and education, not regulation
> or even in the technology itself.
>
