The BBC has run a fairly alarmist story about the dangers blogging – especially moblogging – poses to children.
Dr O’Connell said that the emergence of moblogs – mobile weblogs – allowed even faster transfer of pictures to the internet using mobile telephones with cameras.She said: “This is just a paedophile’s dream because you have children uploading pictures, giving out details of their everyday life because it’s an online journal.”
OK, so there is actually danger there, and it is a danger that most people haven’t considered yet. Britain wants to “ensure that our laws allow for early intervention to help prevent predatory sex offenders targeting and abusing children”, which is very good, but I don’t know how they plan to do that. As far as I can tell the laws would be either useless or unreasonably restrictive…It will be interesting to see what they come up with
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