Obey the laws of the pact?
Nobody has to take a pledge of citizenship in order to become a Netizen, and kids
are acutely aware of the absurdity of having to do so. We don't get thrown out
of the internet because we've promised not to view porn but actually do so on
the sly. We don't get punished for forwarding yet another bloated PowerPoint presentation
of cute dogs. We can't issue a surf-the-web license only after kids pass a test
that proves that they know what they're doing. Going online isn't something into
which someone has to be initiated. It's an everyday occurrence that almost everyone
is engaged in daily. Kids grow up with it, and into it. And for better or for
worse, they're going to have to define the ground rules for themselves.
Go to: Mixed messages, or
Go to: Bad Netizenship.