Delete online predators now!

Rookierookie · Post by **Rookierookie** » Mon May 15, 2006 1:44 am

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,195270,00.html

This is going to be so much fun.

What's equally fun is this disclaimer below:
FOXNews.com is owned and operated by News Corporation, which also owns and operates MySpace.com.

dj_venom · Post by **dj_venom** » Mon May 15, 2006 2:25 am

[QUOTE=Rookierookie]What's equally fun is this disclaimer below:
FOXNews.com is owned and operated by News Corporation, which also owns and operates MySpace.com.[/QUOTE]

We've got worse than that over here. We have the statewide newspaper, The Courier Mail, also owning a job finding service. So everynow and then, a 'story' appears about how some person found their dream job using that service... journalism and plugging, a match made in heaven.

Chimaera182 · Post by **Chimaera182** » Mon May 15, 2006 6:58 am

[QUOTE=Rookierookie]http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,195270,00.html

This is going to be so much fun.

What's equally fun is this disclaimer below:
FOXNews.com is owned and operated by News Corporation, which also owns and operates MySpace.com.[/QUOTE]
By its very nature, GameBanshee's forums would be such a place.

These kinds of predators have been finding ways to get to children for centuries without needing these online social networks. To think that cutting off teens' access to such sites is going to protect them is ludicrous. And teens have always found ways to get into places they're not supposed to be anyway, so it's not like it's going to stop them. Smells like a cheap attempt at telling the public that the government is actually doing something good.

FOXNews owns MySpace? Oh dear god, one more reason to hate MySpace.

[QUOTE=dj_venom]We've got worse than that over here. We have the statewide newspaper, The Courier Mail, also owning a job finding service. So everynow and then, a 'story' appears about how some person found their dream job using that service... journalism and plugging, a match made in heaven.[/QUOTE]
You can't blame them for plugging their own services. All companies do that whenever possible.

Ashen · Post by **Ashen** » Mon May 15, 2006 8:48 am

Meh, this is one of those things politicians do to divert attention from the fact that in reality they aren't actually doing anything to prevent things like pedophelia. Am not sure what the English expression is, but here it would be something like putting mud in your eyes to make you unable to see.

Not to mention that FOXnews is blackballed for me.

Chimaera182 · Post by **Chimaera182** » Mon May 15, 2006 9:38 am

[QUOTE=Ashen]Am not sure what the English expression is, but here it would be something like putting mud in your eyes to make you unable to see.[/QUOTE]
I think the English expression would be "pulling the wool over your eyes."

Ravager · Post by **Ravager** » Mon May 15, 2006 10:37 am

[QUOTE=Chimaera182]By its very nature, GameBanshee's forums would be such a place.

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Forum sites don't really fall under 'real-time'...they may be close, but it isn't the same thing...

Rookierookie · Post by **Rookierookie** » Mon May 15, 2006 10:50 am

Ravager wrote:Forum sites don't really fall under 'real-time'...they may be close, but it isn't the same thing...

"allows users to create Web pages or profiles that provide information about themselves and are available to other users; and offers a mechanism for communication with other users, such as a forum, chat room, e-mail, or instant messenger."

Tut, tut.

Ravager · Post by **Ravager** » Mon May 15, 2006 10:52 am

Meh. Fine. It won't affect me in any case...and my empathy for others is low at the moment...

Besides, my point was that GB is a forum, not a chat-room...not the application of this law.

Lestat · Post by **Lestat** » Mon May 15, 2006 10:57 am

[QUOTE=Ravager]Meh. Fine. It won't affect me in any case...and my empathy for others is low at the moment... [/QUOTE]That means that those pesky teens whose presence on this board now hinders us in our expression and linking would be gone? Where can I vote for this law?

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Rookierookie · Post by **Rookierookie** » Mon May 15, 2006 10:59 am

[QUOTE=Lestat]That means that those pesky teens whose presence on this board now hinders us in our expression and linking would be gone? Where can I vote for this law?

[/QUOTE]
I'm insulted!

Ravager · Post by **Ravager** » Mon May 15, 2006 10:59 am

@Lestat, Vote? For a law?

Craziness.

Lestat · Post by **Lestat** » Mon May 15, 2006 11:03 am

[QUOTE=Rookierookie]I'm insulted!

[/QUOTE]Well, it's not personal. But since Gamebanshee is open for all ages, we are not allowed to use a certain number of words, link to certain sites (and not just porn sites but any sites that contain strong language or even limited nudity), etc.
If teens would not be allowed to use forums the rationale for this interdiction would not exist anymore.

And I was joking.

Fiona · Post by **Fiona** » Mon May 15, 2006 12:47 pm

[QUOTE=Lestat]
..... the rationale for this interdiction would not exist anymore.

[/QUOTE]

And? You sweet, trusting thing, you

dj_venom · Post by **dj_venom** » Tue May 16, 2006 1:21 am

[QUOTE=Lestat]If teens would not be allowed to use forums the rationale for this interdiction would not exist anymore.[/QUOTE]

Byebye Lestat, play nice with the big boys.

Magrus · Post by **Magrus** » Tue May 16, 2006 4:32 am

I just watched Carrie for the first time on Sunday. (Odd how they played that movie on TV on Mother's Day eh? :laugh: ) Anyhow, it seems appropriate here. American society essentially has been for a long, long time to just shut their children away from anything that is dangerous. Don't speak of it, bring it around, and make it illegal.

Which leads to school wide demonstrations on why it is bad after kids seek to explore those things which were banned from them to even hear about. Which leads to child resentment of authority and doing so just because some teacher was spouting stuff in a manner that didn't appeal to the kids. Which leads to bumper stickers and t-shirts, and rulers, and D.A.R.E. :laugh: (Drug Abuse Resistance Education http://www.dare.com/home/default.asp )

Oh yeah, this'll be great! I can picture it now, a 15 year old smoking a blunt, sipping off a 40 and hacking through the blocks set on his favorite chat programs at home all while wearing the t-shirt his school provided to advocate drug awareness, and the spiffy baseball cap that promotes avoiding online predatores. *nods* Go Republicans!

Damuna_Nova · Post by **Damuna_Nova** » Tue May 16, 2006 6:50 am

[QUOTE=Chimaera182]FOXNews owns MySpace? Oh dear god, one more reason to hate MySpace.[/QUOTE]

Don't you mean one more reason to hate FOX?

:laugh:

Chimaera182 · Post by **Chimaera182** » Tue May 16, 2006 10:16 am

[QUOTE=Damuna_Nova]Don't you mean one more reason to hate FOX?

:laugh:[/QUOTE]
The reasons to hate FOX are limitless as it is. That'd be like trying to add 1 to infinity; it just doesn't work, because one more than infinity is still infinity.

Ah, well. I was a member of D.A.R.E. 14 years ago, sadly. I knew the president kinda. Four years later, I ran into him and he was stoned off his rocker. So much for D.A.R.E., I daresay. :laugh: Kids love the forbidden fruit. Once they learn Santa doesn't exist, they tear the house apart looking for their Christmas presents, because it's forbidden to see them until Christmas morning. Kids do drugs when told not to because its forbidden. And kids will go online to those sites anyway if they're banned.

ch85us2001 · Post by **ch85us2001** » Tue May 16, 2006 10:26 am

The people (kids or just plain children) who do things because they are forbidden are usually just doing it to get attention or because they dont have anything better to do. Maturity is making peace with the establishment. I dont have any problems with Liberals who have thought about there positions on things, and honestly believe that, and would be willing to go against something if it wasnt with there values. I do have a problem with young people that do it just because it's "cool"

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And how exactly do they plan to regulate websites out of the US?

Damuna_Nova · Post by **Damuna_Nova** » Tue May 16, 2006 12:56 pm

Will this be an end to Magrus's courtship of Kitten?

Lord knows he's a sexual predator.

Magrus · Post by **Magrus** » Tue May 16, 2006 1:09 pm

[QUOTE=Damuna_Nova]Will this be an end to Magrus's courtship of Kitten?

Lord knows he's a sexual predator.[/QUOTE]

*coughs* I think I finally found something in what Bush has seen done in the US that I like. I could press charges on you for slander boy.