Parry Aftab
Parry Aftab
Parry Aftab is an American lawyer and Internet safety expert who founded the Internet safety organization WiredSafety and the consulting firm WiredTrust...
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Kids are doing things online that they don't do in real life. We need to teach them that online is real. They have to be accountable for what they do... and they have to be able to live with the consequences of their online actions.
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If someone called your home and asked to talk to your kid, you would know how to handle that. But it's once there's a mention of technology that we don't know how to handle it. Parents just need to know how to control and monitor their kids as they would anywhere else.
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Parents are clueless. Parents need to recognize that these kids are going to be using this whether we like it or not. That said, say to your kids, 'I'd like to see your profile page tomorrow.' You're the parent -- if you don't like it, unplug the computer. If they don't follow your rules, no Internet at all.
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Parents are often either unaware of dangers, or they're freaked out about them. They want software but they don't know where to start looking or how to use it.
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They want a cell phone to be in the kid's hands, but they want control.
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While it may not be the single silver bullet in the fight to protect our children in cyberspace, ... it is an important piece of a much larger solution.
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We need to tell the difference between being paranoid and being careful,
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Today's plans from the big carriers don't address parental control issues. There are a lot of parents who want their kids to have cell phones so they can get in touch with them when they need them, but many of them have been holding off buying them phones because they don't feel comfortable.
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Unless we 'think outside of the box' in crafting innovative and immediate solutions, these abuses will continue and escalate.
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With this domain, protections will be built in that aren't in place now. They will be very careful to make sure there's no marketing to children through a number of controls, and that's welcome. We need those measures.
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We have to get our kids to utilize the best Internet filter, and that's the one inside their heads.