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Andrew C Bulhak (acb@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au) wrote:

: : "What we need on Internet is to hold effective discussions about control of 
: : Internet and we need more women using it so it's not basically a service for 
: : men and the profits going to me," Ms Kirner said.

: : "It's got to the stage where I think if it's going to be the major means of 
: : information exchange in a decade, then we have to look at control.

: : "What's happening is that males are the main users of Internet and I think 
: : that women have to use Internet more but more importantly we have to take 
: : control of it because it's currently a male plaything."

It is rare to see such openly blatant sexist statements. 

Ms. Kirner is right -- it is all about control.

: : Authorities in the United States have already prosecuted men who had molested 
: : children they had contacted by e-mail.

: Cite? I haven't heard of any specific cases of children being physically 
: molested after being contacted over the Internet. This sounds like urban
: folklore.

There is actually one case that I know of in California where a man was 
arrested for raping a 16 year old boy that he had met online.  I wouldn't 
deny that it happens, just that it happens at the scale that requires 
wide-spread censorship of people who use the net.

: -- 
:     Andrew C. Bulhak  "We have trolled ourselves. We have lost."
: acb@cs.monash.edu.au   -- John William Chambless, on the death of a.r.k

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