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Article Title:	Protecting Children From Internet Porn
Author of reported comment:	Shaun Hollingworth
Comment Date:	11:54 on Feb 24 2011
Comment:	Yes I am a parent. I have a boy and girl both in their late teens the younger one now in the sixth form. My wife and I have brought them up with little help from anyone and i have always been fully aware of my responsibilities to keep them safe. MY responsibilities, not the states, by it imposing undue and often unfair restrictions on people in the name of "protecting" children. The teenages are well adjusted, very well mannered and I can take them anywere and be extremely proud of them They have always been tought to hold a strong opinion ONLY when they have thought it out for themselves, rationally, based on their own experiences and research, and never simply because anyone (including myself or my wife) told them what to believe. Increased censorship as advocated by religion is harmful and there is increasing evidence to support this. As I said, they don't do it on the continent, with little evidence to show it is necessary. My kids have been online for over ten years, with dialup and then broadband in 2002. We always monited their internet activities using programs such as VNC client/server (free software) so we could remotely see what they were doing and had little cause for concern. They knew we could do it and knew when we did, as an icon on the taskbar turned black. I never once found them accessing adult sites. Now they are teenages over 17 I allow them the freedom to decide for themselves within legal limits.

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