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Going online without understanding the basics of how the internet works is like getting behind the wheel without knowing the road rules: you might still get where you’re going, but you could be a danger to yourself and those around you.
Using the internet is now a daily activity for most Australians. Yet, the number of people who actually understand the internet’s mechanics is small. Government and schools do work to promote cyber security and cyber safety, but the message is still not getting widespread attention.
Ultimately there is only so much that government or businesses can do to keep us safe online. At a certain point, we need to take personal responsibility and educate ourselves about how to use the internet safely.
http://theconversation.com/we-need-to-take-responsibility-for-our-own-safety-online-38368
(Score: 2) by martyb on Tuesday March 17 2015, @01:03PM
The parent comment, titled "gummit protect me from the words" is an apparent reference to a ruling in the USA forbidding certain 'offensive' words from being used on the airwaves during certain hours of the day. (I don't have it to hand, so the above is from memory.)
Given the story is titled "We Need To Take Responsibility For Our Own Safety Online", I see the foregoing as being an interesting counterpoint.
Okay, a *quick* search came up with this link: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SevenDirtyWords [tvtropes.org] which gives a readable background on those words, and some others, and the changing attitude towards them.
Now, going off-topic a bit, but while on this subject, George Carlin had a skit which made use of those words. He had another skit I'd once heard on the radio using 'fuck' in a number of different parts of speech. "It can be a noun! (gives an example.) Or, a verb! (another example.)" My search-fu is not so good this morning... Can any Soylents find a link to the routine?
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