No Rock And Roll Fun

WRITING A PIECE ON THE INTERNET? DON'T FORGET IT'S EVIL: There's nothing worse than when local journalists and 'concerned parents' get together for the internet - as here someone registers for an unofficial band website; turns out they get sent porn spam afterwards. Firstly, it was the mother who signed her daughter up for the service - which goes to show there's not a great deal of point in parents supervising their kids use of the web if they don't have any web savvy themselves - if their kid wanted to learn to fly gliders, they'd presumably seek some advice from someone who could fly rather than saying "strap yerself in the cockpit, love, I'll teach you... can't be that tricky, can it?" Secondly, there's a problem of not quite understanding the nature of the problem here. Okay, an eleven year old should be able to surf without getting porn come-ons (might we suggest pop-up blockers and mail filters?) , but how do you get from 'advert to porn' to this: "She fears many other young children could accidentally be exposed to the sordid images - and with the alleged abduction of 12-year-old Shevaun Pennington hitting the headlines last week, believes it could lead to even more dangerous situations. If I could access these sites so easily and innocently, I'm sure many youngsters alone in their bedrooms could be doing the same," she said. And with all the other dangers of using Internet chatrooms highlighted in the news at the moment, who knows what could result from it?" Presumably only by Tabloid Style Escalation?