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Re:Google Buzz? More Like Buzz Kill by fab13n on Thursday February 11, 2010 @07:32AM (#1117473)
I see a key difference between driving cars and interacting on Internet, besides the nature of the dangers: it is important to know how to act on Internet without censorship, whereas I don't see the point of knowing how to drive without a seatbelt.

Now it can be discussed whether temporary censorship is a good pedagogic tool, which is the heart of the disagreement here, but the seatbelt analogy doesn't hold water.

I personally tend to believe into responsibiling rather than censorship, because:

- most censorships don't work well and get healthy kids to react against them; there's nothing worse than foolishly relying on a censorship that doesn't work.

- I tend to believe that when you trust people, they try very hard to be trustworthy.

- Our society is deresponsibilising everyone (it's the microwave vendor's fault if you're dumb enough to microwave your cat); giving a sane sense of responsibility to my kids is probably one of the best competitive edge I can give them in life.

- I'm ideologically libertarian when it comes to ideas, free speech and communications (not so much when it comes to economy, but that's off-topic)

Re:Google Buzz? More Like Buzz Kill by FluidDjango on Thursday February 11, 2010 @09:19AM (#1117648)
> I tend to believe that when you trust people, they try very hard to be trustworthy.

Maybe "people" (individuals) do. Yet this trust is exactly what black-hats tap when they social engineer an email recipient into visiting a malware site.

Re:Google Buzz? More Like Buzz Kill by fab13n on Thursday February 11, 2010 @11:09AM (#1117901)
So, should I make sure that my kids aren't black hat before trusting them? :)