The Home Office calls on websites to do more
‘999 adverts’ to help young tell on website paedophiles:
The Home Office in the U.K. is responsible for law and order in England and Wales. They’re considering plans to order social sites like MySpace and Bebo to show ads for emergency services including the “999″ number, the U.K.’s version of 911. They believe the ads will encourage young users to call 999 when they are inappropriately contacted. The Home Office of course is calling on the website owners to better protect their users with such measures as age restrictions and age verification.
Much like the U.S. government The Home office is pointing out the problems but not offering any real solutions. Age verification of course is a great idea but there is no realistic way to verify age when users sign up for these sites. The 999 ads are a good idea but I just hope it doesn’t get abused by kids for minor problems that law enforcement don’t need to be dealing with.
The most important thing to keep kids safe online is once again not being addressed by government. Parenting.
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Michael McManus
Jan 1, 2007 at 11:44 am
The Home office is good at saying things, But rubbish implermenting things, Last year go an email from the home office about stoping child abuse not long after it started,this some thing i had emailed all our mps about Still not heard if they are doing any thing about it ,yours Michael McManus
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