Report Advocates That Nanny State Might Actually Not Be For the Ideal
Posted by: in Rights Onlinetonyreadsnews writes “Usually, ‘thinking of the children’ is a starting point to impose limitations on video games and world wide web in general. For once, a study requested by UK’s Prime Minister seems to be a bit more objective then most. In the Executive Summary (PDF) ‘Children and young people need to be empowered to keep themselves safe — this isn’t just about a top-down approach. Kids will be kids — pushing boundaries and taking risks. At a public swimming pool we’ve gates, put up signs, have lifeguards and shallow ends, but we also instruct children how to swim.’ I think that’s an important point that most studies miss, that just ‘thinking of the children’ and locking the bad stuff away is actually setting them up for failure later in life. A direct link to the full PDF is also available.”
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