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...SurfWatch, Cyber Patrol and Net Nanny, allow adults to screen content on their home PCs, while most of the large online providers offer built-in "parental controls" or free screening software. But computer programs don't obviate the need for adult supervision. Even SurfWatch, which pays graduate students to troll the Internet in search of offensive material, promises only 90% effectiveness. And to achieve that, its software filters must, of necessity, err on the side of caution. SurfWatch once banned a portion of the White House home page because it contained the keyword couples...
...hours, concurrently with the White House "summit," I took it upon myself to troll my cable box in order to get a feel for precisely the sort of sex and violence the conferees were fretting. I might add that I am well qualified for the task, having worked five years ago as a writer on a short-lived Fox program called Best of the Worst, a compendium of so-awful-they-were-ostensibly-amusing video clips. One example: a Japanese game show called Endurance that featured men having their nipples burned by a magnifying glass...
...convinced that reading about the "underside of life" is always inappropriate for young children. When I was seven years old (more than a half-century ago), Make Way for Ducklings and Peter Churchmouse were my favorite books, and the troll under the bridge was the scariest thing in my second-grade reader. At that time, I read in LIFE magazine how Americans who survived the Bataan death march were forced by their Japanese captors to beat fellow prisoners until they died. We may underestimate children's capacity to handle the truth. My lifelong abhorrence of cruelty and violence is anchored...
...communications device,'' she says. All of this may sound strangely overwrought to those who have yet to venture online. The Internet, after all, has been touted largely as an unwalled repository of raw data, not of raw emotions. But the truth is that the vast majority of people who troll the Internet's byways are there in search of social interaction, not just sterile information. An estimated 80% of all users are looking for contact and commonality, companionship and community -- all the conjugations implied by E.M. Forster's famous injunction ``Only connect!'' Relationships can be complicated in cyberspace because...
...weeks since this story was reported, Beavis moved to the Harbor View Center, a residential treatment facility in Long Beach, California, for emotionally disturbed adolescents. Green went home. Troll and Rainbow are still on the streets. Christine, Billy and John have not been seen...