Dear Sir/Madam
I fear that some of the advice given in the recent Mothers Union
report on the sexualisation of children may prompt parents into
fighting a losing battle to prevent unsuitable Internet material being
viewed by their offspring.
Instead of installing largely ineffective and easily circumventable
Net Nanny progams on their children's computers, they would do better
to allow them access solely to web browsers which can display only
text. As any anti-pornography campaigner will tell you, it is the
pictures which cause the most damage whilst confining young people to
text online might also have the desirable effect of improving
literacy.
Perhaps, in the interests of education, this restriction could even be
put on a statutory basis.
John Eoin Douglas
(Spey Terrace)
I fear that some of the advice given in the recent Mothers Union
report on the sexualisation of children may prompt parents into
fighting a losing battle to prevent unsuitable Internet material being
viewed by their offspring.
Instead of installing largely ineffective and easily circumventable
Net Nanny progams on their children's computers, they would do better
to allow them access solely to web browsers which can display only
text. As any anti-pornography campaigner will tell you, it is the
pictures which cause the most damage whilst confining young people to
text online might also have the desirable effect of improving
literacy.
Perhaps, in the interests of education, this restriction could even be
put on a statutory basis.
John Eoin Douglas
(Spey Terrace)