Basic guidelines for kids interested in blogging

The following tips are a guideline to kids that are interested in blogging.parents can tell them that they should:
•Don’t offer any personal information such as g your last name, phone numbers, home address, e-mail address, last names of friends or relatives, age, or birth date and so on.
•Never post exciting pictures of yourself or anyone else.Be careful about images that upload in your blog that don’t show personal information and always look at back ground of pictures carefully.
•Pay attention to contents that you post on the web because they are permanent an any one can print ans save them easily
• Use blogging provider sites that can protects your blog actually, not only your username and password.
•Keep away to compete with other bloggers.
•Use positive and confident contents on your blog and never use it for defamation and violence to others.

http://www.microsoft.com/protect/parents/social/blogging.aspx

Regulating Hate Speech in Cyberspace: Issues of Desirability and Efficacy

Cyber-libertarians believe that cyberspace must support unlimited free speech and no regulation on internet content. Despite this idea, nations are making obligatory individual regimes of content regulation. It is impossible to obtain universal agreement on Internet content regulation. There is a wide disagreement about how freedom of speech applies to the Internet. Nations such as Germany and France have considered both criminal and civil penalties for hate speech on the Internet. However, they face with difficulties, especially when the defendants are not nationals, and when the content originates from foreign jurisdictions. The Council of Europe has recently moved to include an additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime. This Protocol would cover offences of racist or xenophobic propaganda, making them subject to reciprocal enforcement provisions by Member States. Although the piecemeal approaches may lead to failure, the international efforts have more chance of the success.
source: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a713670470

image: hate speech cartoon by David Fitzsimmons

Hate speech

Any communication that is intended to humiliate any person or a group on the basis of some characteristic such as race or sexual orientation is hate speech. In law, hate speech is any speech, gesture or conduct, writing, or display which is banned. The reason to ban hate speech is to prevent the violence or prejudicial action against or by a protected individual or group.
The law may identify a protected individual or a protected group by race, gender, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, or other characteristic. In some countries have considered criminal or civil penalties or both for hate speech.
A website that uses hate speech is called a hate site. Most of these sites contain Internet forums and news briefs that emphasize a particular viewpoint. You could find common characteristics of hate sites in following link:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0ux7dI7y9iMJ:www.media-awareness.ca/english/issues/online_hate/deconst_online_hate.cfm&hl=en&strip=1
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech

Which organizations protect the civil liberties of internet users?

The Global Internet Liberty Campaign [1] was formed at the annual meeting of the Internet Society in Montreal to protect and promote the civil liberties of users and operators of computer based communications systems such as the Internet. Members of the combination include the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Human Rights Watch, the Internet Society, Privacy International, the Association des Utilisateurs d'Internet, and other civil liberties and human rights organizations.

The major objectives of the member organizations of GILC are to protect and promote fundamental human rights such as freedom of speech and the right of privacy of users and operators of computer based communications systems such as the Internet in everywhere. You can find the members in following link: http://gilc.org/about/members.html

EFA[2] is on of the GILC members that is independent of government and commerce. the organization advocates the amendment of laws and regulations in Australia and elsewhere which limit free speech. One of the other major activities of the organization is to educate the community at large about the social, political, and civil liberties issues involved in the use of computer based communications systems.

Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties (UK) [3] is another member who covers such important issues as the regulation of child pornography on the cyber and UK Government’s encryption policy. The organization provides last news and information about free speech and privacy on the Internet.

[1] http://gilc.org/

[2] http://www.efa.org.au/

[3] http://www.cyber-rights.org/

A quick blogging primer for parents

Recent researches show half of blogs are written by teenagers .there are potential threats I sharing of their detail personal information that because they have to tendency to competite for attention.
Although keeping weblog improve their skills in writing and communication but is important that parents give them correct information about risks and benefits of cyberspace. Here are a few suggestions to get started:
•Create regulations online use with your kids and be persistent
•Screen contents that your kids wanted to post in its weblog
•Tanger , if not take out it.When you want to post a content in the weblog, ask yourself that you can show it to a stranger if not take out it.
•Evaluate service provider and realize if it offers private password for protect weblog
•Save weblog address you kids and always review the contents.
•Show positive weblog to your kids and teach them that how use weblogs usefully
source:
http://www.microsoft.com/protect/parents/social/blogging.aspx

Adult Content and Child Safety

Adult Content: We do allow adult content on Blogger, including images or videos that contain nudity or sexual activity. But, please mark your blog as 'adult' in your Blogger settings. Otherwise, we may put it behind a 'mature content' interstitial.
There are some exceptions to our adult content policy:
Do not use Blogger as a way to make money on adult content. For example, don't create blogs where a significant percentage of the content is ads or links to commercial porn sites.
No incest or bestiality content: We do not allow image, video or text content that depicts or encourages incest or bestiality.
Child safety: We have a zero tolerance policy towards content that exploits children. Some examples of this include:
Child pornography: We will terminate the accounts of any user we find publishing or distributing child pornography. We will also report that user to law enforcement.
Pedophilia: We do not allow content that encourages or promotes sexual attraction towards children. For example, do not create blogs with galleries of images of children where the collection of images or text accompanying the images is sexually suggestive.
source: http://www.blogger.com/content.g

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