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Online Parental Controls - SO Internet Contributes to Parliamentary Advisory Forum

Posted by James[UH], 06-23-2011, 03:27 AM
Try to imagine, if you will, how an elephant might feel, or if thats too heavy, how a rhinoceros or a black bear or perhaps how a dolphin might feel .
If their infants are in danger or threatened by a predator.

Its a basic instinct of most species to protect their young and you think it would also be our instinct too, but perhaps not. Perhaps we might learn some parenting skills from other animals?

Its equally a basic instinct for children to explore and experiment but, just as we would keep them from playing with fire or prevent them from toying with anything dangerous, perhaps we should be more concerned about what they surf on the internet.

A Parliamentary Advisory Forum hosted by Claire Perry, MP for Devizes, met recently to discuss Online Parental Controls and speakers from the great and the good included; Ed Vaizey, MP for Wantage and Didcot; Dido Harding of Talk Talk, Justine Roberts of Mumsnet; Dr. Clarissa Smith of University of Sunderland; Mike Gavin of BT; and John Carr OBE, internet consultant on child safety.

Claire Perry said 50% of children browsing the internet do so in private, without parental control. The time has come to do something about this. and Ed Vaizey commented It has become clear from the weight of letters, conversations and comments that this is very much a live issue. There is an opportunity for Internet Service Providers to show the Government what they can do to help.

Paul Sillars of Kidderminster based So Internet specialising in content filtering, was also at the meeting and commented We will head down a cul-de-sac if we keep getting stuck on the freedom of speech issue. This is not about deciding what is right or wrong for children to see, this is about firstly giving parents the ability to choose and control what is viewed, downloaded, or streamed through and from devices that their family use every day. I am excited that So Internet can play a part is these discussions and provide a solution that can help towards resolving this increasing problem.

The anti-filtering lobby claimed at the Forum that the main pop-ups you get when surfing are no longer for pornography but are now pushing gambling. They say that this proves that the market is changing and that adult content being viewed by children probably has no effect on them.

Sillars also says M247 is working hard to help parents who just dont want their children to experience this kind of content just yet and our technologies already enable parents to filter out undesirable websites so that children just never have the opportunity to see it, even by accident, whether its on their mobile phone, home or school computer. It neednt be a jungle and parents can use our powerful tools to keep things under control

BT, Sky, Talk Talk, Virgin and other service providers are also working together to produce an Industry Code of Conduct that will speak with consistency when making information and advice available.

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