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There are around a billion and a half people, children and adults, nannied by the government in what they are allowed to see and read online or in the bookshops.
The values of freedom of speech are precious indeed.
But how can parents *in practice* censor what their young children read and see on the Net?
For some children net nanny software is enough.
Others, more curious and tech savvy, know how to bypass the wall. They may also get url's and content from their friends. Or be the ones passing it out.
For those, their parents have to prepare them for what they may see or read, before they find it themselves.
In this case loss of innocence comes early.
At what age can parents start to prepare their children for the criminality, insanity and aberrations that are found in the real world?
Either way, through self-exposure or parental preparation, loss of innocence seems to be the inevitable outcome of children exposed to unlimited information.
Law, Internet and Children
As I have said for a long time it isn't up to the government to police what kids and can and cannot access online. That is the job of the parents. if the parents aren't tech savvy enough to understand their kids online activities and monitor them then they have failed in their duties as a parent. Parents who let their kids wander the street without any knowledge of where they are or what they are doing have their kids taken away from them for being irresponsible and unfit parents. Letting them wander the internet with absolutely no clue as to what they are doing or even bothering to check up on them is the same kind of irresponsibility, and should have the same sort of penalties for parents.