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	tez 2009-09-07 07:19 am UTC (link)
	..... ...oh hell no. (Reply to this)

	sisterelwood 2009-09-07 07:28 am UTC (link)
	Waaah?! NO. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	jaseroque 2009-09-07 07:41 am UTC (link)
	That icon pretty much sums up my feelings too... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	doomsday 2009-09-07 08:34 am UTC (link)
	That's just plain slimy. (Reply to this)

	charamei 2009-09-07 12:25 pm UTC (link)
	WHAT. (Reply to this)

	fools_game 2009-09-07 12:27 pm UTC (link)
	I would honest-to-god let my kids surf without any monitoring at all before I'd install that thing on a computer they would use. Y'know. If I had kids. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	somnambulicious 2009-09-07 04:42 pm UTC (link)
	I do have kids. And yes, this. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	rosehiptea 2009-09-07 05:04 pm UTC (link)
	I do have a kid, though she lives with her dad, and we never really considered this kind of software. But this really clinches it. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	cassildra 2009-09-07 06:26 pm UTC (link)
	Exactly this. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	seperis 2009-09-07 08:45 pm UTC (link)
	And this is why I keep that computer in a public area of the house and visually check cache and don't use these programs. Sure, he may fall into a Something Awful picspam, but I would risk that first. ...and fine, I think it would be funny to see him jump as well, so my motives are not pure. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lady_ganesh 2009-09-07 09:36 pm UTC (link)
	Same here. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	seperis 2009-09-07 09:46 pm UTC (link)
	I figure if he goes somewhere he knows he shouldn't, getting goatse and tubgirl are fitting revenge and not even the worst he could hit if he drops into the chans. Plus, it's hilarious. Not that I am not eagerly watching for this day to happen or anything. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lady_ganesh 2009-09-07 09:51 pm UTC (link)
	Hahahahah! (Reply to this)(Parent)

hyeri
2009-09-07 11:53 pm UTC (link)

So glad to see someone who thinks the way I do. *grins evilly* Just his expression when a friend and I tried to explain boylove/yaoi to him in the supermarket has been enough to keep us going for the past 2 years. It's great. *is so evil*

My way of thinking is that I can't protect him from everything there is that is wrong with the world so I will just do the best I can to let him know that yes, there are ppl out there who do seriously bad shit, this is how you minimise it from happening to you, and let him work the rest out himself. I'm not going to wrap him in so much cotton wool that he can't even function properly, like some ppl (and family) are trying to do with their kids.

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seperis
2009-09-08 12:13 am UTC (link)

Yes, this. I want to separate things that are actively dangerous from things that are well, gross or stupid or not my thing (ie, I find it stupid, but he doesn't, and who I am to judge, I'm a damn fanfic writer, y'know?). It's honestly easier on my blood pressure and he's more likely to ask me about something questionable to him when he knows already when I object, it's because it's serious, and I'll have a reason for it, and it won't be because he saw breasts (I boggle when I hear parents go on about that. I always want to ask "but what were the breasts doing? Did they talk? Can you link me?). Otherwise, he has the basic tools to be edgy (for a twelve year old) and safe. If all else fails, I have the login for the router and can set blocks.

And OMG yes, I am so excited he will discover all the horrors of the internet picspam soon. I mean, if I had to go through freaking goatse and all of it, by God, I see no reason he shouldn't have to. From his current cache, I give it six months before he starts feeling rebellious when I say "you really don't want to see that". I really need to get him a better monitor, come to think. Something in HD and with a nice wide screen.

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	cat_mcdougall 2009-09-08 01:16 pm UTC (link)
	I love this thread, and knowing that there are other parents willing to allow their kids scar themselves. Seriously. My daughter's nine, and she's not very adventurous. Yet. I'm waiting. And rubbing my hands gleefully. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	libelle 2009-09-08 01:23 pm UTC (link)
	I really need to get him a better monitor, come to think. Something in HD and with a nice wide screen. You are evil. I applaud you. (Reply to this)(Parent)

brennalarose
2009-09-09 12:55 am UTC (link)

You sound like my husband. You spell too well, though.

I didn't want to agree, but, I think I do. I kind of policed myself as a kid and a teen, because a) I lived in terror of my mother, b) I lived in terror of Rule 34 before I knew it had a name and c) the only policing my mother did was a time limit on my net access, so I didn't have time to get into shenanigans. I figure, if the kid sees boobs, so what? It's nothing he's never seen before.

The developers of this program need to be beaten with zombie weasels.

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	cat_mcdougall 2009-09-07 12:49 pm UTC (link)
	I love my new computer set up. The two internet computers are side-by-side. Meaning that while I'm on one, and my daughter on the other, I only have to glance over to see what the hell she's doing. It's not as good as complete attention, perhaps, but it's better than shitty software like that. (Reply to this)

	sgtgeorgecarter 2009-09-07 01:28 pm UTC (link)
	Honestly, what did people expect? Data mining is the new "in" method of creating a revenue stream. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	mer1973 2009-09-07 01:59 pm UTC (link)
	Probably that companies will behave ethically. You'd think Enron would have driven that idea out of their heads. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sgtgeorgecarter 2009-09-07 02:26 pm UTC (link)
	Oh you optimist you... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	persona 2009-09-07 06:41 pm UTC (link)
	... Which doesn't make it any less uncouth when they do it. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sgtgeorgecarter 2009-09-07 07:08 pm UTC (link)
	No but I expect companies like this to sink to the lowest depths possible to try and squeese whatever money they can. Too many years in advertising have shown me there is not depth to which they will not go. So while it doesn't surprise me at all, it does still manage to disgust me. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	rewind 2009-09-07 06:45 pm UTC (link)
	I never did trust those things. (Reply to this)

	inalasahl 2009-09-08 05:29 pm UTC (link)
	"We never know the name of the kid — it's bobby37 on the house computer," Greene said. Yeah, because usernames aren't identifying information at all. Idiots. (Reply to this)

	brennalarose 2009-09-09 12:56 am UTC (link)
	brb, going moronhunting. (Reply to this)

	sarracenia 2009-09-09 02:24 am UTC (link)
	And so even if they didn't keep any kind of identifying information, what do they think chat logs are but full of identifying information? "hey whats ur address again i lost it" "309 data mine road, spywaresville". Oh look, all of a sudden they have the kid's address again! (Reply to this)