Another roll of cotton wool to wrap your sprog in

Well it would seem that today is "Internet Safety Day" which is meant to raise awareness of the dangers kids face on the InterWeb and how to protect them against it. Your humble green scaly friend is of course happy to take part and would caution anyone under the age of 18 to stop reading right now because I'm about to say "fuck".

The Cyberspace Research Unit (CRU) at the University of Central Lancashire is the UK co-ordinator for Internet Safety Day

That would be that venerable centre of learning that used to be Preston College of Further Education then. Jesus Christ these morons were't even a polytechnic and now they are telling us how to run the fucking internet.

The scheme is being launched as research in the journal Pediatrics reports that 42% of young people aged 10-17 questioned for the study had seen sexually explicit material online. Two-thirds of those who reported seeing this material said their viewing of it was accidental.

"Although there is evidence that most youth are not particularly upset when they encounter unwanted pornography on the internet [it] could have a greater impact on some youth than voluntary encounters with pornography," said the study.

First up what's "sexually explicit" because there's a bit of a world of difference between a piccie of Janet Jackson's boob flash during the superbowl and the movies made by the late Bodil Joensen (for the Love of Fafnir do NOT click on that link if you are at work!). And can we play "spot the weasel words" here - we have "evidence" that young people are not upset or harmed or pretty much anything really when thy stumble of a bit of flesh on the web but it "could" have a greater impact. In other words the data shows it doesn't make a flying fucks worth of difference to the mental, physical or emotional wellbeing of little Johnny if he thinks he's pirated "Happy Feet" but in reality he's accidentally downloaded "Hot Penguin Lust Vol XIV" but that doesn't tie in with our "porn is nasty and should be banned because, well, people like it and men look at it" moonbat views so we'll just make up shit that it's probably bad anyway.

Mind you, what the fuck do you expect from Preston C of FE.

Oh and, icing on the cake, out comes John "I'm really tough, me" Reid who can't find all those foreign murderers, rapists and paedophiles or, come to think of it, his arse with both hands, with his attempt to hop on the bandwagon...

In the UK, British Home Secretary John Reid has said he is considering making paedophiles add their chatroom names to their other details on the Sex Offenders Register. And sex offenders could be forced to register their e-mail addresses to prevent them approaching children on the internet, the UK government has said.

Yep, that ought to do it, can't imagine that they would just go off and register a new IM and hotmail account.

Bloody hell I need a "Voluntary Encounter" with some pornography. Wonder if I have any of Bodil's movies hanging about...