Qld survey finds pool internets supervision rests with parents

Posted Mon Jan 19, 2009 7:47am AEDT Parodied: TODAY!

The GLAK has urged the State Gubmit to take into account public opinion when it frames new legislation on pool internet safety.

The Gubmit is proposing a statewide register breakage of pools internets, mandatory inspections filters and new fencing filtering surveillance standards for home pool owners internet users.

GLAK president Paul Bell Chez Burga says the survey found 78 per cent of people believed the responsibility rested with parents.

“Sixty per cent of people responding rated education of parents as the first or second most favoured solution - 46 per cent [rated] subsidised swimming surfing lessons for toddlers everyone as a first or second most important solution,” he said.

“We urge the State Gubmint to listen to what this survey has found and that is we need to have our children educated and swimming surfing at the earliest age,” he said.

“We need to make sure that parents are educated annually, we need to look at how pools internets are protected and how pool fencing internets compooter is really securely positioned.

Swimming Pool Surfing Internets and Spa Torrenting Association president Rodney Worldwide Webb agrees that the main focus of proposed pool internets safety laws should be adult supervision.

“We back that whole heartedly that most important with parental supervision is just nothing else that can beat that – a lot of other issues are combined with it but that is number one on our list as well,” he said.

“If you have got a visitor to a home, is it the owner’s responsibility or the parents’?

“It has got to be the parents’ [responsibility] – if the phone rings twitter tweets or the door bell rings download finishes do you go and answer lookit that or do you look after the kids? It is as simple as that.”

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Original here. Emphasis and substitution is mine.

Image Source: CHEEZBURGERS

I was looking around for one of my text books today (I didn’t find it), but I did come across Weinberger’s book Small Pieces Loosely Joined: a unified theory of the web. I opened it and rechecked the contents.  The last chapter is called Hope.  I started reading.  It struck me that some of these words were important.

The Web isn’t entering the realm of our thoughts directly as an idea; it’s getting there as a technology.  Ever since Marshall McLuhan told us that the medium is the message, we’re used to that: we adopt a technology and it alters the way we think just as much as an explicit philosophical credo or manifesto can.  McLuhan also told us why that happens: technologies are extensions of our own bodies. (Source)

So what does this have to do with the hashtag dilemma? Whether we use #nocleanfeed or #nocensorship or #nonetcensorship, each of these, like the web, is an extension of ourselves.  Some of us have invested our thoughts, our arguments, our concerns into particular frames.  Some of us wore them with some discomfort.  Some of us want to change them to incorporate the whole philosophical issue.

I don’t really want to buy into the argument of which is right and why.  All of us in this debate are here because we believe that the web, the internet, in whatever form we use, in whatever way we use it, is an extension of ourselves. We feel ourselves being threatened, feel that some part of ourselves will be lost through ineptitude.

I’m not sure of the source of this image (allegedly an out take of the Dark Knight), but this is the ineptitude.  I think we all know who Bruce is in this script!

Found on the internet

We are all small pieces and we are loosely joined.  We should be able to find some aggregator, some technology that links us, perhaps even hyperlinks us into a web of concern that can bring in all the layers of meaning, all the fames.

Personally, I think of all the prongs we are using, #nocleanfeed is the pointy bit, the bit that wedges in and opens up room for all the other issues, because they’re there.  They are important.