Apple hates WoW.
On this features page for Leopard, the new operating system for Macintosh, Apple actually mentions how you can use it to limit your child's World of Warcraft playing time. Harsh. Luckily, I'm using an ancient OS called Tiger, which puts me twice removed from this kind of Nazi-like behavior. Proper parental controls exist in the brains of the parents and children, not in a computer. Besides, if your tyke is savvy enough to level to 60, he can probably figure out how to turn this off.
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Allowing parental control of technology is a good thing, much like ratings systems are. If parental control is in place, it gives parents the power to turn it on or off at their discretion, giving them another roadblock, if they so choose, to their children accessing objectionable material.
It does not take the place of paying attention to your child, it is another tool to use in addition to that.
Are you running on the Republican ticket in the fall BK?
I have to agree. It's a good thing. But Watching your kids is totally the most important tool in a parents arsenal. PAY ATTENTION TO THEM.
My leanings to the right have always been a blight on the family honor. The only answer is seppuku.
Sorry, but I agree with kindralas. What is the possible harm including tools to *help* parents to the right thing? In marketing, we call that "value added". Why is everything that allows anyone, any sort of control ALWAYS Dick Cheney's fault and part of the world domination plot to turn us all into soylent green? (which is people, btw)
Don't whack yourself just yet kindralas.
whoa....soylent green is people??? I thought it was just a veggie cracker (thank goodness I wouldn't touch that either)
Good parents use the V-chip, Apple's safeguards, and ESRB and MPAA ratings as a tool to help them in a comprehensive plan of good parenting.
Lazy parents use these systems and don't pay any attention to what their children are doing.
There are more lazy parents than good parents. Furthermore, some parents who used to spend some time with their children now spend none because these "controls" are now doing all the work for them.
So, these systems let lazy parents slack, make average parents lazy, and I say they are bad for children.
It's not how we were raised, and it's not the way I raised my child.
Okay, I will make sure to kick my son and yell at him to change the channel.
Uh oh. Shocho is about to break into the "when I was a kid" speech! :)
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