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A spokesman for the Internet-Rating Observation Institute in Tokyo, which monitors harmful websites to children. The National Police Agency says a growing number of children are falling victim to sexual crimes as a result of meeting adult strangers via Internet-based devices such as video game consoles and tablets. (Yomiuri Shimbun)
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We should avoid blithely sharing devices with no connection restrictions with children, and also stop giving the devices to them as hand-me-downs. We ask that families set rules regarding device usage
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Harry_Gatto
Good advice but most people can't be bothered to / don't know how to do it.
Novenachama
It's plain and simple. First of all you have to find out intentions by determining the kinds of things your children are likely to do online. Then agree on background rules. After that choose which search engines, browsers, websites and apps are the best for your children to use. All parental controls on every device your child uses should be activated. Next you have to monitor viewed content and review what your children is viewing and make sure they are following the agreed background rules and don't come across harmful things online by accident. Last of all you have to keep talking and teach your child to avoid unsuitable content, and cope with it they sometimes see it. That's the best you can do.
MsDelicious
What age do you consider someone to be a child? Under 20?
So are you going to restrict a 19 year old from cruising the net?
SenseNotSoCommon
Ignorance is bliss: my seven year-old's iPad is locked right down, and he's none the wiser.
albaleo
Wait till he's 9.
Black Sabbath
I am curious to know if there is any evidence, and I mean copper-bottomed evidence, that shows children today are any more at risk now with the interwebs than they were when I was a kid. 'Cause I've looked and found nothing to support the claim, and much to debunk it.
For example: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/technology/personaltech/28pogue-email.html?_r=0
When we look at rates for violence against children, molestations, abductions, neglect, every metric possible, children are much safer now than in the 1970s in the US.
Its all just so much nonsense.
"They" always want to take away freedom and its always in the name of BUT WHAT OF THE CHILDREN!!!?!?!