A BBC report notes comments to the Scots Parliament, concerning the blogosphere as boon to pedophiles. One observer was up to date on social software:
Dr O'Connell said that the emergence of moblogs - mobile weblogs - allowed even faster transfer of pictures to the internet using mobile telephones with cameras... She said: "This is just a paedophile's dream because you have children uploading pictures, giving out details of their everyday life because it's an online journal."
The psychologist, whose research and work with police and other agencies has included posing as a child on internet newsgroups, said predatory adults could use an RSS feeder program - a syndication tool - to be instantly e-mailed any picture when it was added to a blogging site.
The cultural construction of cyberspace as terrible place continues.
*lol*
Posted by: ana | January 31, 2005 at 07:27
Difficult dilemma: how to address reasonable fears when even low-odds events are so horrific, while at the same time emphasizing and thus helping to construct the potential and actual good in cyberspace? I usually say the 'net is life writ large, but can we endure the grotesque extremes?
Posted by: Gardner Campbell | January 31, 2005 at 12:44