China Attempts To Protect Children From Internet
An article written by the People’s Daily Online, “the most influential and authoritative newspaper in China”, indicates that China will develop technologies to fighting minors’ Internet addiction. It will do this by amending an existing law that protects the rights and privacy of minors.
The article author writes:
The draft amendment to the law on the protection of minors would have the state to take measures to organize the R&D of new technologies, which might include software that can terminate online gaming at fixed time.
This caught my eye because it sounds an awful lot like the application I wrote about in Stop Applications From Running. So if you do not live in China or can’t wait for the law to pass, you could always use this application!
The article does state that internet addiction is a serious and growing problem:
Government estimates claim that China has about 15.4 million youths among its 123 million netizens. Two million of them are Internet addicts, and the number is increasing rapidly.
This is a terrifying statistic but one that is reflected in North America, according to a study released by Stanford University School of Medicine this month.
There are a number of things that you can do to help keep your children safe on the Internet including securing your home network and keeping your personal information private.
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Rob Dunn Says:
October 29th, 2006 at 9:08 pmGood read -
I agree, there is a problem with the connected youth of today. My wife and I babysat for our friends, and I watched as their 10-year old played a game (albeit not an online game) for 6 hours straight.
In any case, within the next few days, I was going to post some information relating to Microsoft Live’s beta of the Family Safety Service, which acts as an Internet filter for your children. Seems as though this information is timely.
It would appear that the later version of the Family Safety software would offer up time limiting of apps/games as well.
I have seen a turning-around of Microsoft in the realm of free services being offered (no doubt being pressured by Google and other players in this market), so I’m hoping that this WILL actually be a good thing for those who don’t know where to go to help protect their “eChildren”. As Microsoft and others lead the way, I’m hoping that this will bring the issue of computer/Internet addiction to the forefront and get these kids outside again.
“eChildren” - Hey, I just coined a new term!
Rob
