> As far as using the Internet as a "babysitter;" it is at least somewhat safer
> than plopping your children down in front of the TV, with all the safeguard
> tools available, such as Net Nanny or Cyber Patrol. Parents can have a
> little more control over it when they aren't there.

Funny that I should be reading this now, considering the tshirt I'm wearing.
(I posted about this tshirt when I first got it - see link below.)

I don't like internet content filters. The whole idea of them seems wrong. If parents are so worried about what their offspring are going to be seeing on 'net, they should take the time to supervise their kids themselves. It seems odd that people should say "I don't know what a complete stranger might be saying to my child via the 'net, so I'll protect them with a program restricting them to a complete stranger's idea of what's good for my child."
And that's leaving aside the problem that I think people tend to focus too much on "Look at all the bad sites that get filtered out" and not enough on "Look at all the good sites that get filtered out as well because they made an unfortunate choice of words, or the maker of the program doesn't agree with their politics, or..."

Paul