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Originally Posted by Stephen
Some people may find it distressing though. If they've been through or witnessed similar events.
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But how will they know if it will be or not? Unless they go into detail to describe why it might be distressing - which in itself reading that, might be distressing to people who have witnessed similar events.
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
Hypothetically, a news crew film the aftermath of a massacre, a story that needs to be told, it’s in a news bulletin, the announcer reports that we have video of the scene of a mass killing - please be warned that some viewers might find the following section disturbing!
Now the vast, vast majority of people will, correctly, realise that what is likely to be shown are dead bodies, possibly children, the more ‘graphic images won’t be shown - but still! And then they can make a choice, watch it or not!
However a minority of people won’t or can’t make that decision and see something that really upsets them.
The question is where do you draw the line? Do you censor everything, just in case one person is upset by what they see, is newsworthy and really important evidence of a massacre not shown and publicised because a few people might be distressed?
Ideally this wouldn’t be a problem, alas we don’t live in an ideal world. I’m sorry, really sorry for people who may occasionally be exposed to seeing something that they find triggering - but the greater good.....?
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Originally Posted by papa smurf
Does this mean that parents will have to police their own kids online activity  |
The idea of somehow policing kid’s online activity is gone, it’s nigh on impossible. Maybe in the past when there might be one ‘family computer’ in the living room; but now...?
I know I have said this before but I have two daughters (now 20 and 24 years old), wind back 15 years or so when my eldest was 10-11 and I got her an iPod Touch and hence access to the internet.
I did set up some kind of filtering, (K9), but working it IT, I understood perfectly how porous these filters are.
So what I said to her was, ‘this gives you access to the sum total of human knowledge; but also some bad stuff. If or when you stumble across something that worries you, anything you are not sure about, anything that you are not OK with; then you come to me or your Mum, you show us, and we will explain it all to you. Importantly, you will not be in any trouble, no punishments, you have done nothing wrong’.
I am concerned that people think you can provide a technological solution to what is actually a parenting issue!