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Ask Soylent: Protecting Kids from Internet on Ubuntu 14.04

posted by n1 on Monday April 21 2014, @09:38PM   Printer-friendly
from the think-of-the-children! dept.

cosurgi writes:

My kids aged 10 and 8 years, are slowly getting to know the internet. They are mostly playing online games on friv.com or sending emails to other kids from school. We are limiting their time at the computer to at most 1 hour daily, and we are supervising, checking on them every 10 minutes or so, or using "x11vnc -viewonly -display :0". Also I have modified the "/etc/hosts" to include stuff from a (now defunct) site which contains about 1500 lines that block various unwanted sites where each line looks like "127.0.0.1 www.doubleclick.net". Also I modified "/etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf" to include line "*.* @my_pc" so that all the computers report back to me (and I have lwatch running on my administration desktop). But I still feel that this is not enough, and I want your advice about protecting kids from the dangers of internet.

 
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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by moondoctor on Monday April 21 2014, @10:57PM

    by moondoctor (2963) on Monday April 21 2014, @10:57PM (#34191)

    i think that if you are the parent of a ten year old it is absolutely ones responsibility to keep them safe from life until they are capable of handling it on their own.

    i would argue that a ten year old is not equipped to understand the dangers of the internet and OP is being a kind and responsible parent.

    'stumble across boobs' is not how i'd describe discovering goatse, accidentally or otherwise...

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday April 21 2014, @11:27PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday April 21 2014, @11:27PM (#34202) Homepage Journal
    Oh come on. You would have laughed yourself silly at goatse at 10. I know I would have. It's not until we get the proper hormones and context that seeing a man's pancreas through his butthole becomes something requiring liquor to dull.
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