anaesthetica's Journal: Video Broadcast Sites Newest Threat to Our Children

The New York Times is breathlessly reporting on the rising danger facing our nation's children: video broadcast sites. Unlike video-upload sites, like the previous banes-of-our-children YouTube and Google Video, these new websites offer live video broadcasts and chats between their users. The kicker: these websites promise no monitoring by their staff for conduct or misbehavior. Will Stickam and PalTalk become the next MySpace, or will they finally succeed in destroying our cam-kids? From the article:

"The only thing you get from the combination of Web cams and young people are problems," said Parry Aftab, executive director of the child protection organization WiredSafety.org.

True Story

[ellem]

Neighbor: ellem, my daughter wants a cam. What's a good one.
ellem: If you get her a cam she will be naked on the internet in a week.

8 HOURS after the purchase of the cam... nekkid teen all over the High School website.

Re:

[anaesthetica]

This is why buying kids laptops with a built-in iSight is of questionable value. There is no way I will let my kids (if ever the day should come) anywhere near a cam.

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[ellem]

whoa whoa whoa... how hot do you think your daughter will be? /ducks ;D