"Education about internet safety doesn't give the child anyone to blame should they get in trouble."

Said by a person who obviously has no children! 

Blame the children, we educated them properly, they got what they deserved.

...that this survey was carried out by adults, to whom children never, never lie.

The fact that only a minority of the children wanted more education about online safety shows a growing trend away from personal responsibility.

It would seem that they trust automated systems, or others, more than they believe that they would be able to trust themselves.

One thing this society is lacking in general is personal responsibility. Education about internet safety doesn't give the child anyone to blame should they get in trouble.

Either they're following the trends that are gripping much of the rest of the world quickly, or the definition of "safe and mature" has been corrupted with time.

Dr Roger Morgan: You vant to feel safe unline like vhen you are vith uns mommy and daddy?

5 year old: Hi

Dr Roger Morgan: Do you vants to have protections vhile on zee internets?

5 year old: Hi

Dr Roger Morgan: Clearly, ve can say zats zee children vant to be fully protected unline, as my reports clearly show they vant to be.


"A few young people were against blocking of sites and wanted to be trusted more in how they used the internet: ‘no site blocking systems – children should be their own judges of
safety’. Some thought that blocking should happen only if there was a particular risk at the time: ‘sites should be blocked only if reports of abuse’. A few agreed with site blocking but wanted us to know that it usually restricted things other than dangerous sites as well: ‘safety is important, but it restricts access to some things I like doing such as games’." ‘don’t talk or send anything when you may think is dodgy’_ oops!

As an adult who has recently graduated from Childhood with full honours, I can say that this is the biggest load of BS ive ever seen.

Of course its up to the parents but many children of today especially the younger ones who are only just starting to get an idea of its scope regard the internet as basically another world, and blocking sites is basically like grounding them from going to a certain place and having a parent actively watch over them is like having a chaperone everywhere they go. Granted for younger childeren its nessecary but once childeren are at the age where you are going to start letting them go to places on their own, for a length of time unsupervised you should start doing the same with the internet.

The thing about the internet is that most kids of today are far more knowledgeable about it than the parents, therefore they will find a way around things. I grew up with little to no censorship of the internet and ive turned out OK (Or at least the handing severed heads in my closet say so).

People just need to shut up and gtfo of the internet if they are blaming it for everything, as they clearly have no idea how it works. If a kid is so messed up that they go out looking for some fucked up shit on the internet then chances are they are going to find out about it anyway. I think most parents seem to think that everything is displayed on the one page and if your not careful youll end up on a site about middle eastern beheading and how to get a clean cut.

A kick in the head for all naysayers, brainwashing DOES give results. 

My condolences to the kids parents, it must be sad to have empty obedient husks for children. A person who is not a rebel in their youth is just unnatural; it is that rebbelion of the youth that made our societies progress and become better instead of becoming stale. 

I am really disturbed by this news :(