[ih] Preparing for the splinternet

[Miles Fidelman]

Toerless Eckert wrote:
>
> How about "The Internet was built for adults" ?
>
Was it?  An awful lot of it was built for students - first university 
level, but quickly extended to K-12.  And that's before commercial 
services aimed specifically at kids.

At this point, it's infrastructure, used by everybody - kind of like the 
phone system, or the post.

Now access controls, based on age, seem totally appropriate - but even 
then, one can get into trouble really quickly:  Consider the "child 
safety" controls that prevent kids, at libraries, from accessing various 
kinds of health information.

Mile Fidelman

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