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"Parents Television Council"
By daveinternets on 5/4/2010 10:43:14 AM , Rating: 5
This group seems to be doing everything they can to ensure parents don't need to parent.

You can't enter into a cell phone contract until you are 18. All the cell phones kids have are provided to them by parents. Why is it not the parents responsibility to monitor what the kid is viewing on the phone?

Kids these days? No, more like: Parents these days.... sheesh!

RE: "Parents Television Council"
By adiposity on 5/4/2010 2:48:39 PM , Rating: 5
It's simple: if Jobs can convince parents that Android phones help their kids get porn, those parents won't buy their kids those phones.

Who cares if it's true or not? The parents will think they are being good parents by denying their kids "porn phones."

So your argument that parents are the issue is wrong. This group is about convincing parents that, to be good parents, they need to boycott products or otherwise pressure companies to change their products to keep kids safe from porn.

The problem isn't parents that care too little. It's parents that care too much and realize their power to control their kids is so limited, they want govt. and private company support to keep their kids from things those kids very naturally want.

RE: "Parents Television Council"
By Jalek on 5/5/2010 4:58:19 AM , Rating: 2
It's everywhere. Local television news reported that someone from a group took a picture of a kid in a large chain store. They didn't speak to the kid or interact at all, just snapped a pic when the kid was looking at something on the shelf near where they were standing. Store employees didn't stop the man, saying that no crime was committed.

The grandmother said he's having nightmares and is traumatized. The only reasonable explanation is the parents/grandparents convincing the kid he was as good as raped. The news editors added commentary from people who weren't there about it obviously being a pedophile.

The picture'll probably end up in some board meeting about the packaging of the toy they were standing there discussing and they grabbed a non-staged photo in a public place. Could it have been more nefarious? Sure, but as far as I know, those types don't congregate like that.

I'm sure it's just workup to a lawsuit against the store, hoping they'll settle instead of laughing at her.

