Re: Unidentified subject!

[Robert Hoffmann <escape@alt-escape.com>]

At 09:38 PM 4/22/99 -0700, Robbie Storla wrote:

For those of you that don't know I am a high school student at Moscow High.
 We have had discussions about shooting incidents in schools and the
students have came to conclude that blame is to be put to the parents.
Let's see, teens and kids have access to guns at home? And let me say that
if your kid is planing this wouldn't you know something was up?  To me
there is a right to privacy but there is also a line that has to be drawn.
I also think that it is really bad that kids can get accuses to information
as how to make bombs, along with this there needs to be a line drawn with
the Internet.  People need to use it as a learning tool and that is it. 
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Robbie,

(and please keep in mind, as you read this, that I am not a parent)

A bunch of high school kids got together and decided that parents were to
blame.  This is news?  If they decided to take the responsibility
themselves, now that would be noteworthy!

I use the Internet as a learning tool (so did the perpetrators of the
massacre, apparently), as a place to buy things, as a place to do business,
for advertisement, as a tool for communication, and for entertainment.  As
soon as you start deciding what people can use the Internet for, you are
bound to step on my toes.

Of course, since I finished high school 16 years ago, maybe I would feel
that the solution is not to ban certain types of material on the Internet
(pornography, Anarchists' cookbooks, etc.), but to ban the use of the
Internet by individuals not yet mature enough to use it wisely.  No
Internet for anyone under 21!

How do your does feel?

Robert Hoffmann                      817 S. Adams
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