A case of self-control

    Surely the answer, if an answer is what you want, is that we must return to the good old days of parental responsibility. Remember the time when parents actually took an interest in what their kids were getting up to, made an effort to bring them up "properly", and didn't just let them carry on regardless? Perhaps the Internet, and the sexual issue in particular will mean that parents will have to renew their concern for their children's welfare and accept the responsibility for care. If there is one thing that the Internet does allow us to do, and do rather well, it is self-censor.

    PCs are such tame beasts that it only takes a relatively simple piece of software to be installed to vanquish those nasty pictures of naked women to the online ether. Parents who complain that their kids know more about computers than they do will need to learn, at least to the point of securing access to the family PC. A good analogy here would be satellite and cable TV. Adult channels are readily available, but require a viewing card to be inserted before the pictures will unscramble. Parents don't complain that this process is beyond them, and no one else can complain about the erosion of civil liberties.