Of course. Because Beyer as usual believes that the soul way of
protecting children from unsuitable material is to slap more
restrictions on what adults can and cannot view.
From Mediawatch UK:
GOVERNMENT LAUNCHES NEW UK COUNCIL FOR CHILD INTERNET SAFETY
FAMILIES AT THE FOREFRONT OF MAKING THE INTERNET SAFER
Some of the biggest names from industry and charities have joined
forces with the Government, parents and young people to help keep
children safe online, Children’s Secretary Ed Balls and Home
Secretary Jacqui Smith announced today. The new UK Council for Child
Internet Safety (UKCCIS) will unite over 100 organisations from the
public and private sector working with Government to deliver
recommendations from Dr Tanya Byron’s report `Safer Children in a
Digital World’.
Reporting directly to the Prime Minister, the Council will help to
improve the regulation and education around internet use, tackling
problems around online bullying, safer search features, and violent
video games. This unprecedented coalition of experts and
organisations will ensure that parents and young people have a voice
in the development of a Child Internet Safety Strategy, to be
delivered early next year.
DCSF News release 29 September 2008
Speaking today John Beyer, director of mediawatch-uk said: “We very
much welcome the new Council and wish it every success in its
endeavours. Many parents are very worried and concerned about the
offensive and harmful material so easily accessible on the Internet.
We hope that the Council will provide a much needed forum where these
issues can be raised and properly considered. The highest priority
for the Council is the protection of children and the Prime Minister
was right to set it up. We hope that other countries will follow the
example we have set in the UK and we hope it will lead directly to an
International Treaty on content that will effectively require the
plethora of pornographic and violent imagery currently available to
be taken down and the stopping of new offensive and harmful imagery
being uploaded.”
“We hope it will lead directly to an International Treaty on content
that will effectively require the plethora of pornographic and
violent imagery currently available to be taken down and the stopping
of new offensive and harmful imagery being uploaded.”
So as usual this does not go far enough for Beyer. He wants an all
powerful “International Treaty” that will ban and remove all porn
from the internet.
As we all know nothing will satisfy Beyer when it comes to protecting
children other than the government agreeing to ban everything Beyer
and his cohorts dissaprove of.
Those responsible for protecting children online have come up with
all sorts of workable recomendations (such as giving parents more
information as to the content of websites) but no recomendations
other than “BAN THE LOT” will do for Beyer and his chums.
Beyer and Mediawatch UK see “protecting children” as a chance to
impose their views on everyone else.
