Taking Responsibility

It is finally time for the websites to take responsibility for the content they provide and the people who see it. Although internet providers now have parental notification and blocking capabilities, it is still difficult for parents to keep an eye on what their children are looking at online.

In an age when children are growing up faster than ever before it is getting harder and harder to be a parent. All of the safeguards in the world will still not stop the crazys from preying on innocent children. There has to be a way to make it a little bit easier for parents to keep on eye on their children.

Soon maybe there will be. In a recent article "Stage Set for XXX Internet Addresses," adult entertainment websites will be able to add XXX to the end of their internet addresses. This will make the websites more identifiable to parental notification programs and online blocking devices. Although adding the XXX is optional, hopefully the adult websites will feel the responsibility to try to stop children from visiting their sites.

In politics, people are having to take responsibility for what is presented on their blogs. At the beginning of the blog era, people were able to write what ever they felt like without having to worry about checking facts and figures. Now people are being held accountable for what is written. If a well known blogger writes something that is not accurate, not only will people stop reading and posting on their sites, but also other bloggers will call them out on the facts. In the age of "Rathergate" bloggers are forced to check every fact and every figure they put on their site. This system of "blog check and balances" make bloggers more credible as sources than ever before.