A Harvard-led panel known as the Internet Safety Technical Task Force conducted a study that focused on the assessment of technologies meant to protect children from being in contact with a possible sexual predator lurking online. The study concluded that no single approach is effective in protecting children while saying that what is vital is the parents being around to protect their children. The study also showed that kids who go online know of the risk that they are entering, that indeed they may be able to be chatting with a sexual predator.
I personally feel though that the study presents a rather dangerous contextualization of the mindset of the kids who go online. Saying that children know the risk that they are taking does not in any way tone down the risk that face them. The fact that the law presumes minors to be unable to fully understand and comprehend a lot of situations surrounding them means that knowledge of the danger does not equate to proper appreciation of the intensity of the said danger.
The report is helpful, I'd agree. However a lot should be done in expanding the understanding of kids with regard to their online behavior. As well as the psychology of sexual predators who use the internet as their tool to lure victims. Furthermore, I do believe that no amount of technology would be able to protect a child when a sexual predator is determined to lure its victims but the presence of a parent would always be an almost sure way to prevent such possibility.
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Baguilat, Raymond Marvic "Ice" C.
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