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  • Microsoft research shows Australian parents are lazy fuckers

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    Pirate
    Posted on 17-03-2010 09:57 AM
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    Microsoft Australia has released research showing that Australian families are not doing enough to monitor the internet use of their children - findings which are likely to be used by both advocates and opponents of the Federal Government's mandatory ISP-level internet filtering scheme.

    The software giant surveyed 1000 Australians in an online poll and found that "more than 60 percent of parents allow their children to surf the net unsupervised and unrestricted at home."

    One in five had discovered their children viewing material deemed 'unsavoury', one in three found their children had communicated with strangers, 36 percent had found their children had downloaded software without permission and 12 percent discovered their children had given out personal details.
    Just as I suspected. Lazy cunt parents is one of the reasons we are getting a censored internet. Expecting the government to raise their kids. I think this is also evidence that breeding needs to be licensed in this country.

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    1. Aardvark's Avatar
      Aardvark - 17-03-2010, 10:03 AM
      The license test: Being tossed into a pit with a rabid bear. If you can survive 5 minutes with the bear, you get your license, with the condition that if your child is unruly in public, breaks the law or grows up to be a twat, you go back into the pit.
    1. Pirate's Avatar
      Pirate - 17-03-2010, 10:09 AM
      I like it!

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    1. dwarfthrower's Avatar
      dwarfthrower - 17-03-2010, 10:11 AM
      My parents allow me to surf the net unsupervised all the time.
    1. Aardvark's Avatar
      Aardvark - 17-03-2010, 10:13 AM
      Stop giving the pro-censorship lobby ammunition.
    1. Scythe's Avatar
      Scythe - 17-03-2010, 10:15 AM
      You mean there are 'strangers' on the internet?

      My God, this must be stopped at once. After all, these 'strangers' could be anyone at all, even people you don't know!
    1. Ruze's Avatar
      Ruze - 17-03-2010, 11:50 AM
      There are strangers out in the street too. Does that mean we are going to have to put batshit insane restrictions on the streets?
      Also, i hear that there is "unsavoury" material on late night TV(and daytime viewing on pay-tv). It would be interesting to cross reference those parents who's kids have seen nasty shit on the internet v's parents who have kids who have seen nasty shit on tv. I bet the numbers are the same. Quick quick, better censor and filter the TV.

      Furthermore, I hear that there is some unsavoury stories in the bible. Death, plague, rape, murder, etc. I guess we better ban the bible, or at least censor out the entire old testament.
      And while we are at it, better ban and/or censor all of shakespears works.... there is some nasty shit in there!
      Ah fuck it, while we are at it, we may as well burn all the books! oh wait, that has been done before...... by hitler!


      The double standards are what makes the internet filter such a joke. You can watch all sorts of shit on TV, or read it in books, etc. what makes the internet so damn different?
    1. Magicbumfluff's Avatar
      Magicbumfluff - 17-03-2010, 12:49 PM
      I had a customer call up today wanting a GPS tracking device that was water proof and could not be removed from a persons.... person. Upon further questioning she also told me it was for a teenager so they could find him when he RAN FROM POLICE! Wtf? I figured it would be for some Juvenile Detention Centre or something, so I asked how many she would need and what company/place it was for.

      "Oh just one, for my grandson".

      Double parenting fail.
    1. Up_All_Night's Avatar
      Up_All_Night - 17-03-2010, 12:50 PM
      Why is there still so much confusion between what convoy wants and home based filtering??

      Whilst Microsoft used the findings to plug the family friendly filtering options available within its Windows 7 operating system, the research tactfully plays into the arguments for those for and against mandatory filtering.
      Actually not really as the filter will no protect children from this material. it just high lights the issue that parents need to take an active role, in monitoring. A filter that only blocks a handful of sites secretly picked by unaccountable public servants is not the same thing.
    1. ACEwoK's Avatar
      ACEwoK - 17-03-2010, 09:22 PM
      Quote Originally Posted by Aardvark View Post
      The license test: Being tossed into a pit with a rabid bear. If you can survive 5 minutes with the bear, you get your license, with the condition that if your child is unruly in public, breaks the law or grows up to be a twat, you go back into the pit along with the kid in question.
      Fixed, apart from that i love the idea.