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Re: Why these news groups were created
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Date: 
Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:53:53 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, David Laswell wrote:
   In lugnet.admin.nntp, John Neal wrote:
   And what about a parent who wishes that their children not be exposed to these types of discussions that occur in public groups on LUGNET?

Parents who use the internet as a babysitter need to get their collective heads out of the clouds and get interested in what their kids are doing.

There have always been bad parents, and there always will be bad parents. But that doesn’t release Todd from choosing to make LUGNET completely kid-safe IMO

   The internet isn’t safe, and it never will be without strict governmental control. And you know who does that? China. And it still doesn’t work like they keep hoping it will.

Exactly. Which is why we all need to take the responsibility on ourselves to make it that way.

JOHN



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(...) Neither does it obligate him. Parents need to start taking paying attention to what their kids are viewing online, and every attempt to make the internet kid-safe only reinforces their false beliefs that there is nothing that their kids can (...) (20 years ago, 23-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp, FTX)

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(...) Parents who use the internet as a babysitter need to get their collective heads out of the clouds and get interested in what their kids are doing. The internet isn't safe, and it never will be without strict governmental control. And you know (...) (20 years ago, 23-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.nntp, FTX)

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