Comments on: Firefox Plug-in Keeps Your Kids Away From Internet Garbage http://realityonastick.com/2007/07/05/firefox-plug-in-keeps-your-kids-away-from-internet-garbage/ Skewered bits of what really matters. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 05:38:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Sean Bannister http://realityonastick.com/2007/07/05/firefox-plug-in-keeps-your-kids-away-from-internet-garbage/#comment-257 Sean Bannister Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:19:44 +0000 http://realityonastick.com/2007/07/05/firefox-plug-in-keeps-your-kids-away-from-internet-garbage/#comment-257 Yeah there is a real need for good child and teen safe software. Yeah there is a real need for good child and teen safe software.

]]> By: realityonastick http://realityonastick.com/2007/07/05/firefox-plug-in-keeps-your-kids-away-from-internet-garbage/#comment-255 realityonastick Sun, 08 Jul 2007 16:15:57 +0000 http://realityonastick.com/2007/07/05/firefox-plug-in-keeps-your-kids-away-from-internet-garbage/#comment-255 Hey Rob: Nice comments, as usual. It's funny how getting older has us worrying about all the dangerous elements awaiting the next generation. I have been thinking about raising kids quite a lot these days, and I can't help wondering how protective I'm going to be about online filth. I mean, there are some things that you just can't <a href="http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=first%20goatse&w=all&s=int" rel="nofollow">unsee</a>. I'm sure we're not far from seeing the first game and porn only mod for an internet browser;-) Hey Rob: Nice comments, as usual. It’s funny how getting older has us worrying about all the dangerous elements awaiting the next generation. I have been thinking about raising kids quite a lot these days, and I can’t help wondering how protective I’m going to be about online filth. I mean, there are some things that you just can’t unsee.

I’m sure we’re not far from seeing the first game and porn only mod for an internet browser;-)

]]> By: rob http://realityonastick.com/2007/07/05/firefox-plug-in-keeps-your-kids-away-from-internet-garbage/#comment-254 rob Sun, 08 Jul 2007 15:46:02 +0000 http://realityonastick.com/2007/07/05/firefox-plug-in-keeps-your-kids-away-from-internet-garbage/#comment-254 i've been thinking about this over the weekend and i'm surprised there aren't more of these lads available for browsers. surely some pasty faced, friendless wonder out there has developed a plug-in that blocks everything except obsessively written video game blogs and dodgy porn. y'know, strip the internet back to just what the user wants. i’ve been thinking about this over the weekend and i’m surprised there aren’t more of these lads available for browsers. surely some pasty faced, friendless wonder out there has developed a plug-in that blocks everything except obsessively written video game blogs and dodgy porn. y’know, strip the internet back to just what the user wants.

]]> By: rob http://realityonastick.com/2007/07/05/firefox-plug-in-keeps-your-kids-away-from-internet-garbage/#comment-256 rob Sat, 07 Jul 2007 02:53:25 +0000 http://realityonastick.com/2007/07/05/firefox-plug-in-keeps-your-kids-away-from-internet-garbage/#comment-256 a brilliant idea and it looks like it's well implemented. the real trick though is coming up with a solution for teens. my thirteen year old niece recently got a laptop and i set it up for her. man, i slapped every filter i could onto that machine so nothing untoward could come up. within an hour, having never used a computer before, she knew how to switch them all off (not that they had worked all that well in the first place). i lose sleep thinking about what filth she's going to stumble on while online. i think about what i was like the first time i was let loose on an unsupervised internet connection and i shudder. of course, she's a good kid, and nothing like i was, but there's always that fear. by the time i actually have kids i'll probably just move us into some luddite compound where i won't have to worry about such things a brilliant idea and it looks like it’s well implemented. the real trick though is coming up with a solution for teens. my thirteen year old niece recently got a laptop and i set it up for her. man, i slapped every filter i could onto that machine so nothing untoward could come up. within an hour, having never used a computer before, she knew how to switch them all off (not that they had worked all that well in the first place).
i lose sleep thinking about what filth she’s going to stumble on while online. i think about what i was like the first time i was let loose on an unsupervised internet connection and i shudder. of course, she’s a good kid, and nothing like i was, but there’s always that fear. by the time i actually have kids i’ll probably just move us into some luddite compound where i won’t have to worry about such things

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