As If You Didn’t Know
It’s another Emily Litella moment for the Count Floyd faction of the media.
As reported by McClatchy: About the risk from those Internet predators: Nevermind
The Internet Safety Technical Task Force examined the extent of the threats children face on social networks like MySpace and Facebook, amid widespread fears that adults were using these popular Web sites to deceive and prey on children.
But the report cited research calling such fears a “moral panic,” and concluded that the problem of bullying among children, both online and offline, poses a far more serious challenge than the sexual solicitation of minors by adults.
“This shows that social networks are not these horribly bad neighborhoods on the Internet,” said John Cardillo, a member of the task force and chief executive of Sentinel Tech Holding, which maintains a sex offender database. “Social networks are very much like real-world communities that are comprised mostly of good people who are there for the right reasons.”
The fear mongering among the media is really a disease, a pathology, that needs treatment. This is another among the myriad of “epidemics” proclaimed by talking head television to scare people and promote idiotic legislation. Anyone who buys into this garbage and the associated “stealing pudding from octogenarians boarding planes stops terrorist” security theater deserves to live in panic or an institution.
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You watch what you say about Uncle Floyd!! He’s a good piano player and I miss his television show!! He can’t help it if he’s gotten flabby in his middle age…and he isn’t an internet predator!!! He’s not a sex offender, either!!! You should be going after the real sex offenders, or the predators who predate on the internets, isn’t there a Bush who does that? Or maybe that was Oogie…
Oh….you said COUNT Floyd….that’s very different….
Never mind.
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That about the size of it, Moi.