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Originally posted by downquark1
The internet is designed for communication, if you ownly want kids to have resources for homework, perhaps you could just buy an encyclopedia cd/book.
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The Internet/WWW was created to share information to a wide audience quickly and efficiently.
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MSN messenger is fine - you need someone e-mail address to talk to them, you need to know the person to get their address, paedophiles won't just randomly cycle through email address to find a child, it would take years.
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Won't they .... they will pose as children on sites such as Neopets etc, and slowly build up confidence..... over months and years. Email address sharing is not uncommon, but it's a faceless medium. I can trawl the internet now for @hotmail.com addresses and have tons in less than 20 minutes. Childrens email addresses can be very easy to spot.
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I agree with towny, Microsoft has just said his to get the paranoid british public to like them. I heard from one of the organisations who monitor this type of thing that 'disconecting contact will just cause the children to swap their details before the site goes down' thus making the problem worse.
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This is a definate possibility, and would drive the problem further underground for the immediate future.