Policing Youth Online
[SUMMARY—A kite mark to protect kids online.]
(UK) As described in the future trends post (see 'Legislation Not Education'), the UK government has teased us with plans of an approved 'stamp' for software to ensure parents feel safe whilst their child is online.
No other real details, but as more and more media switches online and the youth follow, you can bet your YouTube and MSN Chat account this will be the start of many policies and strategies to 'police youth online' or provide better protection for them—depends on your viewpoint.
Home Secretary John Reid said:
We are setting up a task group with the industry to protect kids from what has become one of the greatest threats of abuse, which is the World Wide Web, the internet.
UPDATE: Putting two and two together here I'm thinking these boys will show up on the radar soon and could be linked with the announcement…
Filed by DK on December 10 2006
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