On 2006-05-30 09:03:00, Deborah wrote:
"
For the sake of argument, censoring what people say, or how they say it, here or on any other site is not going to prevent pedophiles from contacting girls who post their email addresses on the internet- which is apparently the 'crime' that was committed. Your daughter needs to understand that there are people in the world who don't have her best interest at heart. That really is your/her best defense.
My daughter understands the threats around her very well. What she doesnt understand is how a site like this one is accessable by her and others in her age group with its content.
(as for net nanny, isnt that censorship?)
I offer my child a reasonable and seasonable oportunity to make her own decisions, including the places she visits on the internet.
She has no idea about TCs, and in an effort to find out more, she came here.
The sexual solicitation is somewhat irrelevant to the point. In her quest to find information about what sort of place her close freind was sent to, she was exposed to some very disturbing innapropriate meterial here and it frightened her.
It offended her, and I have to question the legality of a 14 year old girl having access to the disgusting adult oreiented comments made in this site.
How do you people rationalize this?
How is it OK?
How is fornits somehow void of any responsibility for that when the "administrator" allows adult users to post the innapropriate dialogue, without the possibility of being held accountable for it?
Tell me something. If you and your 14 year old daughter were standing in a supermarket, and the man next to you grafically elaborates on how he masterbates, or how others rape children etc or how "niggers" (refering to people of african decent) are a genetic malfunction of the evolution of apes...
What action are you going to take?
Are you going to hold that man accountable for his comments made in the presence of your child?
Or are you going to put your hands over your childs ears?
Now tell me, which of the two would you consider censorship?
I cant believe how many people think holding someone accountable for their words is censorship.
ITS NOT!
People are, and should remain free to say whatever they feel like saying.
Theres no thought control or censorship holding them accountable for it!
Has your attorney made any requests for information from Ginger? If the perpetrator emailed your daughther, that should provide all the evidence you need."
The indictment is the result of emails in which the accused claimed he got her address from fornits.
I have no idea what the grand jury may have done in the way of info from fornits, maybe ginger knows and is hiding something?
The prosecuting attorney doesnt seem to be interested in Fornits. Cases involving the internet are very difficult to present to a jury and whatever role fornits played in the commencement of a crime seems insignificant if only to the prosecutor.
My attorney has no interest in fornits either, other than to mention it as the initial means of contact between my daughter and the accused.
Believe it or not, the defense attorney seems hell bent on finding some way to imply my daughter made the sexual proposition first and lied about her age dispite the fact that all of the emails exchanged between my daughter and this man are complete, intact, and identical on both his web based email server, and my own.
Nothing in any of them is unclear about my daughters age, and no implications were made by her that implied a desire for sexual contact between them.
In fact, only two emails were actually sent by my daughter. The rest were written and sent by the sherrifs office disguised as my daughter.
The man invited my daughter to a hotel in Boise.
Guess who showed up.
This is all really irrelevant to my point.
The board neds to change.
The board needs to strengthen its cause by weeding out the filth and the filthy.
It needs to incorporate a means to hold people accountable for what they say (again, NOT by censoring them, but allowing them to continue saying ewhat they will, and issueing whatever consequences may be appropriate for what was said)
Knowing what little I know about my daughters close friend, I too would like to know that she is not being abused in some way by the school that gets paid $30k a year to make her "better"
I didnt realize there was anything wrong with her to begin with. But her parents are in the middle of a nasty divorce, and I suspect she was sent to this school as a result of this, poor grades and an incident with alcohol (which my daughter happened to walk away from thank you)
