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MISTICA: Re: TIC y jovenes

From: Deirdre Williams ([email protected])
Date: Thu Sep 04 2003 - 08:45:10 AST

Last time I suggested that there were two problems, but on reconsideration
in fact there are three.

The third case is that of the person (not necessarily a child) who "bumps
into" offensive material by accident.

Recently you were discussing Utopias (I just listened :-) ) The term was
created by Sir Thomas More, in the sixteenth century in England, from two
Greek words u - no and topos - place, a utopia is "nowhere". Most people
nowadays who seek utopias would find Sir Thomas More's Utopia uncomfortable
- it was a very authoritarian place with many rules - but he originated the
idea. (Senor Arboles pequena would be very happy there :-) ) Perhaps More
also intended the irony that the perfect place is unattainable.

As far as it IS possible, I think we might agree that the utopia, the
perfect place, the truly civil society is where the balance is most
delicately achieved between freedom and anarchy.

It has been suggested that problems one and two - pornography and
paedophilia - are probably most efficiently dealt with by education, rather
than by any direct intervention "on the internet". Problem three would seem
to be a suitable case for treatment with some type of filter system. If you
are NOT looking for something, you should not be forced to find it. When we
first had web access at this College in the mid 1990s two colleagues of
mine decided to use this new tool to look for literary criticism of D. H.
Lawrence's novel "Women in Love" (a Cambridge A level set text). "The
internet"'s major interest in D.H. Lawrence was then in "Lady Chatterley's
Lover", and given "Women in Love" it had no interest at all in literary
criticism. I believe that people are entitled, wherever possible, to a choice.

Deirdre

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