John Carr Crawls From Under His Disinforming Stone

26 Aug 2012 08:56

Internet is a dark, scary place again

"By John Carr, Internet child safety expert [not]

A wise man once said: “When you are in a hole, stop digging.” It’s advice the owners of Twitter should heed. [pity you never followed your own advice, John]

Ever since the Sunday Mirror exposed [sic] the way paedophiles [sic] were using Twitter to contact each other [!] and swap child abuse images [sic], we have been waiting to see how they will respond. Their silence is deafening. The hole is getting deeper.

Twitter’s lack of a clear and energetic response is deeply worrying. If they don’t understand and accept the need to respond to public anxiety [ah] about an issue as horrific [sic] as child sex abuse [sic] and child pornography [sic] you have to wonder what is going on inside the heads of their senior executives. [actually, inside yours would be much more interesting, John]

When Parliament returns in eight days Twitter need to prepare for an onslaught [sic] which will include calls [from who, John?] for legislation that the Government may find hard to resist. [we will see]

The likes of Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Yahoo! have invested hugely in putting in place systems to keep child pornography off their networks.[ hahahahaha]

They have joined bodies like the Internet Watch Foundation. [oh, well that will fix it - not] Twitter is not part of any of these arrangements. So Twitter are letting the side down. [what 'side' John?]

The internet is back in the public eye as a dark and scary place. [only to idiots and those with a vested interest who feed them]

*John Carr is a leading expert in internet child safety and Government adviser [not]"

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/twitter-paedo-profiles-social-network-1280382
 
3:51PM BST 26 Sep 2012

Social networks 'cannot be trusted to protect children online' 

"John Carr, a board member of the UK Council for Child internet Safety, said in the wake of "scandals" such as the exposé of sexualised content on children's social network Habbo Hotel, he believed self-regulation was "a big con"."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet/9567458/Social-networks-cannot-be-trusted-to-protect-children-online.html