Interesting Links for 09-05-2012
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andrewducker- Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are author, dead at 83
- Worried about online porn? Don't regulate the net – regulate your kids
- Government gives go-ahead for the largest onshore wind farm in England and Wales
- Privileged people frequently think they earned their advantages. Which explains a lot.
- The Watchmen Prequel that almost happened in the 80s.
- Iron Sky in the UK for one day only? Here's what you can do to change that!
- Would elected peers be useful for representing the regions of the UK?
- Pirate Reverse - a long list of sites to get you around Pirate Bay Blocking
Largely listed to show how simple it is to route around censorship. I don't actually use TPB myself. I find http://Kat.ph better :->
- The Great Bioluminescence of 2009
- On writing books that are "too smart for kids".
- Pastafarianism in the military - the encounter with the drill sergeant is hilarious
- Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in your mouth - Art Spiegelman interviews Maurice Sendak
- News companies depending on Facebook to push people their way are fucked when the algorithms change.
- What's going on with the coalition-forming in Greece.
- Psychopathy linked to specific structural abnormalities in the brain
- The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is 100 times larger than it was 40 years ago.
- What it's like to be a Kuwaiti censor
- A list of things scientifically verified to be as addictive as cocaine
- Africa’s Child Health Miracle: The Biggest, Best Story in Development
- Brain Scans Give Glimpse of How Your Dog Thinks
- Stories Are Like Religion
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Date: 2012-05-09 02:52 pm (UTC)I imagine the software here will be slightly less effective than that. On the other hand I imagine there will be similar consequences for little Johnny found hacking his way round the porn filter.
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Date: 2012-05-09 03:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-09 03:05 pm (UTC)The question is, how many motivated 12 year old children would be able and willing to hack around such filtering software -- add to it a risk that the software might alert their parents to such a circumvention attempt and I bet the amount gets higher.
Of course you can still distribute stuff out-of-band... USB keys and so on.
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Date: 2012-05-09 03:33 pm (UTC)Not just a block on the sites your 12-year olds want to access.
Not just a notification to mum and dad.
But an email sent to every member of the family, including grandma, detailing exactly what you've been looking at.
Why you would want to shame your own adolescent children into hating their own sexuality is a different question.
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Date: 2012-05-09 03:54 pm (UTC)Why you would want to shame your own adolescent children into hating their own sexuality is a different question.
Heh... well, there's the rub, if you'll pardon the pun.
The real issue is to what extent do we wish to prevent children seeing these things. I mean for me there's clear outcomes... I wouldn't want my seven year old god-daughter watching torture porn. I don't think it's any of my business if a sixteen year old has similar access that I do to pornography. Somewhere between is a grey area I don't really know enough to comment upon.
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Date: 2012-05-09 04:15 pm (UTC)Helped a bit by the fact that many children (myself included) who encountered horrible things simply go "Ewwww" and put it back.
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Date: 2012-05-09 05:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-10 08:59 am (UTC)For example, I wouldn’t want the Captain to start reading Far Right literature until I’d had an opportunity to tell him the story of his great-uncle liberating Belsen or pointing out to him that he’s half Slavic.
So context I think it pretty important. Specifically on porn I wouldn’t want my children to think that porn was a sex manual or a relationship guide. And I agree, six is way too young for torture porn. Sixteen year olds are old enough to look after themselves.
I think part of people’s discomfort lies in themselves. I don’t particularly want to be explaining why some people like water sports to an eight year old (but why I’d really like to continue to use the toilet). Nor do I want to be known as “The Capt’s Dad, he tells the Capt about perverts.” Much easier to ban it or restrict it and never have to have the conversation. Especially the conversation that starts “Well, actually, your mother and I quite like…”
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Date: 2012-05-10 10:43 am (UTC)Much easier to ban it or restrict it and never have to have the conversation.
Oh... that's rather different sure.
I am not in a position to offer informed comment not being a parent. However, were I, I would want my child to be able to use a computer freely without my direct supervision ("here are some parameters for use, now go do your thing") from an early age. I am also aware that it would be pretty easy for such an unsupervised child with unrestricted computer access to find some things I definitely would not want them to see without some kind of restriction in place. So I feel sure I would use some kind of filter system.