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I see a key difference between driving cars and interacting on Internet, besides the nature of the dangers: it is important to know how to act on Internet witho
by fab13n 17y ago
I see a key difference between driving cars and interacting on Internet, besides the nature of the dangers: it is important to know how to act on Internet without censorship, whereas I don't see the point of knowing how to drive without a seatbelt.
Now it can be discussed whether temporary censorship is a good pedagogic tool, which is the heart of the disagreement here, but the seatbelt analogy doesn't hold water.
I personally tend to believe into responsibiling rather than censorship, because:
- most censorships don't work well and get healthy kids to react against them; there's nothing worse than foolishly relying on a censorship that doesn't work.
- I tend to believe that when you trust people, they try very hard to be trustworthy.
- Our society is deresponsibilising everyone (it's the microwave vendor's fault if you're dumb enough to microwave your cat); giving a sane sense of responsibility to my kids is probably one of the best competitive edge I can give them in life.
- I'm ideologically libertarian when it comes to ideas, free speech and communications (not so much when it comes to economy, but that's off-topic)
- FluidDjango 17y ago> I tend to believe that when you trust people, they try very hard to be trustworthy. Maybe "people" (individuals) do. Yet this trust is exactly what black-hats tap when they social engineer an email recipient into visiting a malware site.
- fab13n 17y agoSo, should I make sure that my kids aren't black hat before trusting them? :)