Making the Internet safe for kids

There is no real freedom unless there is real maturity. Abandonment, the playing-field for rationality, means “anything goes”. So, whom or what determines maturity which then limits the freedom that is abandonment in reality? Certainly not those whose sole reason for existing is to first damage themselves and thence others [and hating/disliking others, say, is a sign of self-damage]. Not the immature crowd which is why you have all these strict controls/”laws” which are actually the camouflage for the abadonments within for you cannot have control without abandonment. Without exception, for only an absolute has true control because that which is absolute do-not/can-not make mistakes for they have no guilt/fear, anger/greed, gender, nor race, say.

There is not one single control freak who is not already self-damaged and all this screw wants to do is to become an abandoned nutter whenever possible. How about not damaging oneself to begin with but why this seemingly continuous harping on airy-fairy moralistic sermons? Because all people want to do is to become pro/one or con/the-other which is why none, in practice, will hit the target. A control now is just an abandonment in the future. You cannot ask a minor/follower-of-your-habits not to do what you are doing, however distant the connections may seem. How can “adults” self-inflict with alcohol [“it’s only a little sip {of poison}, hic], say, have likes/dislikes [as opposed to being peaceful observers/witnessing] and cheating, lying and much more, and expect others, especuially minors, not to follow? 

One reason why the major religions are fighting is because they ALL have fundamental flaws which the other can see, justify and exploit. Even religion has no maturity so what else is there? Science? There is only one answer, the reality/truth within all which is merely Love and not “love” and love is that which you hold dear and will not transgress, firstly yourself and thence others. The problem then is, are you mature enough to differentiate between Love [Reality/Truth/Infinity/Innocence/Wisdom/Detachment] and “love” [saviours/sympathy/immortality aka religion/falling-in-out-of-love/possession-attachements/ad infinitum within relativities]. If there is such maturity, there won’t be any of the problems that we see daily that are seemingly unsolvable for you cannot answer greed-cum-fear with fear-cum-greed. A truth is when opposites repel whereas an untruth is when opposites attract. This is where the idea of majesty and nobility comes from, not the olden-day killers and the modern-day beggars. Truth does not [need-to] judge but all judges truth which then leads onto another relative, whose truth do you mean. That’s [the minds of] science & religion for you. Looking for the abolute in others but seldom themselves. Making “The Internet” safe from others? How about making your minors safe from you first? Most do not even know how to or be bothered about their charges. Why so? Because the individual’s illusions and imaginations come first. When a person’s Attention is fragmented/excited by “multiplicities”, especially a child’s, you’ll have a hard time coralling his “herd”.

Dont they have better things to worry about? like planning the next london bombing?
Like i am really going to leave my kids safety up to them. It should happent at the house, just like the door is how the ourside world comes in. Your computer is the door the outside world too. They probably got jhon mcain as the head of theyre IT department.

"intensify efforts to protect young people" - somehow that reminds me of "intensify forward firepower !!"

Given the track record of UK Gov in personal information security, my gut feeling is that the result will be similar (crash and burn).

Put the sticker "Family Safety Member UKCCIS" on the box and you're going to get more sales. Government minister backing this probably gets some shares/boardroom payroll and their party gets more funding.

Parents get to buy a product that sounds like a good idea in the shops but they struggle with when they get home.

I feel sorry for the parent's, I just cannot imagine how hard it would be to control what kids see on the internet.

A clever ISP could see a massive gap in the market here for "Family Friendly Internet".

Use a combination of ISP's Router and the Username on the PC to control what level of content is allowed to come through. Make the options screen be a simple web browser interface on the ISP website.

There, looks like I've done it again, solved some problems and created a new niche in a market. Do you think somebody would actually pay me for these ideas?! ;-)

Put pc in living room, no pc's in the bedroom for illicit nocturnal surfing chatting etc...

No unsupervised access until they move out.

Why?
type in google triple penetration... thermite... decapitation...that's why, the internet is an adult zone.

At the end of the day, its not about regulating the internet, its about responsible parenting. Why should adults be restricted because of lousy parents? 

Its not about the sicko stuff its about fundamental freedoms, the internet allows all adults to exchange ideas views etc... without being big brother'ed within reason.

proposals like these will just lead to mass censorship of unrelated issues, and will result over time into mass censoring, just like the patriot act, its for our security...

-Benjamin Franklin 
Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will find it deserves neither and lose both.