Saturday, January 20th 2007
MySpace will offer spyware for parents
Due to unrelenting pressure from the press, angry parents, and politicians, MySpace is releasing software that will monitor a MySpace user's activities on MySpace. The software, codenamed 'Zephyr', does look a lot like spyware, but will only report MySpace activities to parents, not unlike AOL's Parental Controls. The software would allow parents to see what name, age, and location their children are using on MySpace. 'Zephyr' would run even if the user logged in from a different location, and does not record highly private/sensitive information such as MySpace comments and email. The main reason MySpace is doing this is because a massive amount of USA senators (33) are threatening to take legal action against MySpace if it does not do something to verify the age of it's users. Other popular social networking sites, such as Facebook and Xanga, will not allow anything like 'Zephyr' on their sites, as it is a direct violation of their Terms of Service.
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For the clueless, the responsibilities of proper parenting involves supervising the growth of your children and their behavior. If we had better parenting we would have a lot less crime in this world, less people on welfare, fewer environmental issues and a much better world to live in. Instead we have parents who use the TV or PC as a baby sitter for their kids instead of proper supervision. As a result these impressionable kids learn all kids of bad things to do like drugs, alcohol, sex, crime, etc. Proper parental supervision guides children past these pitfalls of life and molds them into productive, useful citizens instead of Pirates, sex offenders, drug dealers, etc.
Denial doesn't change reality. MySpace and uTube along with many degenerate TV and radio programs contribute to the delinquency of minors who turn into adult garbage in many cases as criminal records substantiate. There is no better time to save a child than when they are so naive and gullible to the online, cable and TV scum that exists today. Ignoring these detrimental online sources increases the ever escalating problems of kids adapting to reality.
My question is:
Who bought the computer that the child used to surf Myspace?
Who payes for the internet that is used to surf Myspace?
What about the Power?
I wounder if the Judge that will reside over this case will think about these questions...