SHL

People seem to have forgotten that you need to be 18 years old to open an internet account in the first place.

Would you just hand over your car and driver's licence to your 14-year old child to use to go for a drive up the street?

The responsibility for sensible internet use lies in the household. Spend the money on educating parent's about safe internet use for children. Software can be installed on home computers, and many ADSL modems/routers have in-build child safe settings that can be switched on.

The biggest risk to children using the internet is stalkers (in chat rooms etc.), and a content filter does little to protect people in that regard.

I am against the Government's plan to filter the Internet at a national level. This is a step in the wrong direction. Censorship is wrong.

Time and time again through history we have seen how books and films etc. banned by governments have only served to show how backward and ignorant that government has been as the time.

Find another way to achieve a good outcome. Don't filter the net.