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Australian Govt. Proposes Internet "Panic Button" For Kids
CuteSteveJobs writes "Children who feel they are being bullied, harassed or groomed online could call for help instantly using a 'panic button' on their PCs under a plan by the Australian Government's cyber-safety working group. The button shall look like a 'friendly dolphin,' who will connect the child victim instantly to police or child protection groups. Australian Internet Censorship Advocate Hetty 'Save the Children' Johnson says the Internet needs something like 000 or 911. Will this be another scheme wasting taxpayer dollars in lieu of parental supervison, or could it actually work? Are 1 in 4 children really sexually abused by the Internet? Can flaming and trolling be classified as bullying?"
>>>I would place more trust in what a police officer says is or is not illlegal.
Yeah because the police have NEVER arrested anyone who was innocent. We can trust the goose-stepp..... I mean black-suited thu..... I mean the uniformed Gesta..... oh never mind.
As opposed to the mob? I mean, the mob has never gone on a witch hunt before.
As far as whether or not the police have ever arrested an innocent before:
Yes. They have. There have been people who have been arrested because the evidence at that point in time point to a specific individual. Sometimes, further evidence found exonerates them, and they are let go. Other times, no evidence is found later to prove their innocence. However, those arrested who were innocent of the crime at least have the option of going to trial. Those taken by the mob are often beaten or killed. I for one would much rather be taken by the police than by the mob.
I don't like Linux. This doesn't make me a troll.
>>>Unless you want to disband the idea of any policing at all..
STRAWMAN argument. I never said or even implied that I want to get rid of the police. What I want is for them to be punished when they arrest citizens w/o cause..... i.e. if Professor Gates spent a night in jail, in violation of his First Amendment rights, then the arresting officers should also spend a night in jail as equal punishment. If it had been a month, then the officers can spend a month in jail.
Inconvenience the officers the same way they inconvenience us.
Oh, I just remembered another story. A young guy his 20s was in his bedroom when suddenly he heard a bunch of men smash down his front door and start making their way through his house. Scared out of his mind, the young guy pulled out a gun, aimed towards the bedroom door, and prayed the intruders would go away. Instead the intruders knocked down the bedroom door, and the young guy fired.
Normally this would be a case of self-defense, except it involves police. They had searched the wrong stinking home! And now that young man is being tried for murder of two officers. That is fucked up. If anybody should be on trial it should be the police for breaking-and-entering without warrant. But no. You can't blame the police; blame the innocent citizens instead.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Please don't change the subject
of commodore64_love's response, something tells me that commodore64_love's other account had some mod points available...
And yes, this post is offtopic, unlike my above post.
I don't like Linux. This doesn't make me a troll.
Slightly OT, but I've made similar mistakes myself.
I remember when I was dating my wife, I introduced her to my desktop with Fedora 4 installed - I told her to play around with it and tell me what she thought. My words were, "Just play around with it, don't be scared to try stuff, its not like you're going to break anything important!"
My computer was a Compaq which still had XP installed in its own partition, along with the recovery partition that they use.
Yes, that's right, my wife booted the computer, selected the Windows recovery option from the Grub boot menu because it "looked positive/interesting" and proceeded through the menus, completely hosed my system along with over 300Gb of movies, music, photos and more important stuff.
I learnt my lesson that day.