.kids domain for kids
p2p news / p2pnet:- The European Parliament wants a new .kid domain name to "help children navigate cyberspace safely".
.kid would be, "reserved for websites with content designed for children and would be regularly monitored by an independent authority, the non-binding proposal suggests,” says Reuters.
It doesn’t say who the “independent authority” would be, or what powers it would have.
“It’s time access providers offered parents special Internet services targeted at children with an automatic filter," the report’s author, French liberal Marielle de Sarnez (UDF),” is quoted as saying.
“She proposed that the executive European Commission create a toll free telephone helpline for parents seeking advice on filtering the Internet or avoiding chat rooms where children could be exposed to sexual propositions,” adds Reuters.
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Reuters – European Parliament proposes .kid Internet domain, September 7, 2005
September 9th, 2005 at 8:37 pm
“…avoiding chat rooms where children could be exposed to sexual propositions,â
Are sexual propositions the only hazzard kids are likely to run across on the internet, or is this narrow focus yet another example of the public’s prurient obsession with sex? Sure, let your kids play 1st person cop shooter games all day, but god forbid they see a woman’s breast… Don’t get me wrong. I think protecting kids on the net is a good idea, let’s just stop staring at the tits and look at the whole picture.
September 10th, 2005 at 3:16 am
Was that a deliberate double entendre? Or was it the innocent expression of a concerned citizen?
Nonetheless, your premise is sound! Human anatomy is judged to be obscene, while human dismemberment, bludgeoning, torture, and infliction of death is seen as a challenge worthy of perfection and excellence. From what spring of ignorance do we claim to partake that we claim to be knowledge and enlightenment? Where do we get the idea that we know what’s best for our children?
God help America.
September 10th, 2005 at 3:29 am
Ah, the eternal quest of greedy product pushers trying to fool people of a specific age and social status into buying crap they don’t want.
If you think this is really aimed at ‘protecting’ the children by trying to avoid any exposure (which is doomed to fail at some point) then you obviously haven’t been in this overtly cash oriented society.
September 10th, 2005 at 6:14 am
It’ll never happen. Oh i’m sure it’d get a lot of support from idiot parents who are too stupid and or lazy to get some idea of what their kids are doing on the net, but when the eu govts realise it’s gonna cost them money? It’ll disappear faster than politicians when the election’s over.
The toll free number wouldn’t help either. The ppl who need it are too stupid to use it, or follow the instructions given to them. The ppl who are smart enough to use it, can find the info that is already on the net and won’t need it. It’d probly only cover the usual MS products and nothing else anyway.
The only solution is simple. Don’t let morons have kids.
“Oh but ppl have rights…”
Yeah, well so do kids. Don’t they deserve a right to have parents who aren’t morons?
September 10th, 2005 at 6:13 pm
It’s .kid, not .kids for the TLD.
(4-letter words are bad, like WORK)
September 11th, 2005 at 4:51 am
you know “word” is a four letter word…omg so is “four”! Scary ;o)