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Support for online kids
Ernie Allen, CEO of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, welcomes you to ConnectSafely and warns parents about risks kids face.
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The politics of fear
Stephen Balkam, the CEO of the Family Online Safety Institute, confronts those who instill fear for their own advantage.
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'Painfully numb' about cyberbullying
Stephen Carrick-Davies, CEO of London-based Childnet International, writes about the pain that can be caused by cyberbullying.
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Self regulation: Lessons from the UK
John Carr, Internet safety adviser to the British government, explains that it is possible for government, industry and safety groups to work together for the benefit of children.
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Old News, New Solutions
Donna Rice Hughes, chairman and president of Enough Is Enough, argues for a law that would help law enforcement and social sites "keep predators at bay."
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Don't judge a face by their Facebook profile
Family tech expert Robin Raskin points out that parents are using Facebook to check out the friends and activities of their children at college and says, "Give them some space!"
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Parents not politicians should be in charge
Adam Thierer of the Progress and Freedom Foundation in Washington, D.C., says that parents, not the government, should be in charge of children's Internet use.

 

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Stop the Internet Fear-Mongering
Nancy Willard, executive director of the Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use, says that the excessive "fear mongering" in online-safety messages is counterproductive to keeping kids safe.
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Toward solving 'cyberbullying'
Where teen online behavior's concerned, "accountability" is a more relevant term than "cyberbullying" for parents and educators to use and think about.  
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Age verification doesn't solve all problems
The Task Force convened by 49 attorneys general examines age verification, but what would it really accomplish?
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UK government's guidelines for social sites
The Home Office's guidance is a significant step of progress in online-child-safety consensus-building.
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Milestone Net-safety view from the UK
The Byron report, an influential document that has relevance for and hopefully influence on Internet-safety work worldwide
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JuicyCampus: Haven for cyberbullies
When "free speech" somehow becomes a license to harass and harm...
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Naked photo-sharing trend: Youth officer's view
Teens sharing intimate photos of themselves and peers via cellphones and the Web - for "fun" or for harm - is a growing problem for police and prosecutors....
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'Growing Up Online': Good for the discussion!
From PBS's Frontline, a portrayal of teen online lives that's thought-provoking and accurate and thus important fuel for the public discussion on online safety....
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MySpace & 49 attorneys general
After 2 years of negotiating, the social-networking giant and the US's state AGs have reached agreement. Here's what's new and why Texas opted out.... 
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Tech first aid for '08 & onward
What families - we all - need to be working on for online youth's well-being going forward
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Social networkers' age verification
It just wouldn't work, according to experts and mounting evidence. Here's why.
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Abduction by online predators rare
Contrary to what some people might imply, most kids who become victims of online sex predators are groomed not abducted.
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Social networking dangers in perspective
Social-networking sites may not be as dangerous as some officials claim.
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New approach to safety education suggested
Larry Magid talks about new research that suggests we re-think Internet safety education.
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Study has good news for social Web safety
A new study finds that 96% of online teens use social networking, yet the vast majority have never had an unknown adult ask them for personal information.
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Profile of a teen online victim
As presented by David Finkelhor, director of the University of New Hampshire's Crimes Against Children Research Center, on Capitol Hill
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