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On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:52:23 GMT, Tony 'Nicoya' Mantler
<nicoya@ubb.ca> wrote:

==>In article <uiq3i3l8bdiucgt7h7e404mr2d1hv224tj@4ax.com>, email_me@mts.net 
==>wrote:
==>: By the sounds of your posts, you would just allow the preditors to
==>: roam the internet preying on our children.  Why is that Tony?

==>I'm saying it happens exceptionally rarely, so getting your panties in a bunch 
==>over it is highly unwarranted.

		You are absolutely correct.

		Actual real-life contact between Internet "stalkers"
		and real children is so rare, it makes big news
		when it does occasionally happen.

		What is especially disturbing about this 21st-Century
		witchhunt is that when an "Internet stalker" is
		arrested, it's virtually always the result of
		entrapment by police or a cop-wannabe
		creep affiliated with some online vigilante group
		impersonating a child in a chat room or online forum.

		But what these (mostly) self-appointed guardians of
		our children's safety are engaged in, is goading
		twisted, lonely losers into turning their pathetic
		(but, in the vast majority of cases, harmless)
		fantasies into reality. That means they are, in fact,
		encouraging the commission of crimes where no crime
		would have been committed without such enticement.

		It's a dirty, devious business that protects no one.

		But it is, of course, to the great benefit of law
		enforcement and aficionados of censorship to frighten
		the hell out of the populace with the spectre of
		legions of flinty-eyed child-rapists lurking in
		cyberspace, in order to quash opposition to ever-more
		onerous limits on freedom of speech and communication.

		There is only one way to safeguard our children, and
		that is to educate them so they become informed,
		savvy Internet users who are immune to being
		seduced by words on a computer screen.

		"He who would hunt monsters should take care lest he
		too become monster . . . For when one gazes at length
		into the abyss, it too gazes into you." -Friedrich
		Nietzsche.


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