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In article <3vr5u7$80v@news.ecn.bgu.edu>, ujbennin@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Joseph Benning) writes:
> Bren Lynne (bren@interlog.com) wrote:
> : Access must be restricted BY children?
> : Good policy.
> : "You gotta log 1000 TV hours before being allowed to read 
> : alt.tv.animaniacs."
> : "You gotta be able to clear the fence jumping from the swing before being 
> : able to read alt.students.highschool."
> : "The comp.* heirarchy is restricted to pencil-neck geeks!"
> : "You gotta chug a king can before being able to read the 
> : clari.sport.football.college."
> 
> Bren, seriously, we don't allow our children to call phone sex TX#'s. 
> Accessing these TX# is possible, but subject to parental control.
> 
> Likewise, a parent shouldn't give a minor unsupervised Internet access. 
> Just because some irresponsible adults (perhaps the Shues?) might not 
> monitor their children's access to Internet, doesn't mean Internet 
> should become censored. Internet access is very easily controlled by the 
> parents. Change the password, disconnect the modem, etc.
> 

My daughter isn't old enough to be using Internet yet, but I've been
giving this issue some thought to try and prepare.

I go to the public library once or twice a week and pick up 3 or
4 novels from the rack.  I find that a *VERY* large percentage of
novels contain very graphic sex and violence.  I've never heard anyone
talk about monitoring their kids in a library.  How does this differ
from Internet?  Why are we so concerned about children running across
adult material on a computer or TV, but seem to ignore the other sources?
Whether it's the Internet, a library, a video store, or TV, the message
is the same - just a different medium.  

I'm curious how parents reconcile their different attitudes of unsupervised
net surfing and unsupervised time in the library.  Since most parents
know nothing of the Internet, I suppose the difference is mostly fear
of the unknown.  Most rational adults aren't clamoring to have books 
containing sex banned from the libraries - why are things like the
Exon bill so popular?

I'd love to see a good solution to this problem before we start having 
virtual book-burnings.

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Scott E. Post   (spost@koptss03.delcoelect.com)