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August 21, 2007
Get 'em young
There's nothing quite like typing in an internet address, only to misspell a word and find yourself at a porn site:
Students and parents accessing a school Web site for help with homework got more than they bargained for if they were just a couple of keystrokes off.
The Litchfield Elementary School District site shares a similar, but shorter domain name to a pornographic site which features live sex performances.
A parent alerted school officials after they mistyped the district's site.
Parents are worried their computer-savvy children might end up at the porn site by mistake because of the address similarities.
I've always wondered, for example, if anybody has "hotmale.com" because it sounds just so damn similar to "hotmail.com." I wouldn't be surprised... But being at work right now, I'm not going to find out!
Here's my favorite quote from the article, by one overly concerned parent:
"It's like a sex offender living right next to a school," Morrow said.
Come on! In my opinion, a kid who wants to look for porn on the internet is going to find it. It's pretty simple, really: if parents don't want their children doing naughty things on the internet, they need to be supervised.
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Posted by oz115 at August 21, 2007 01:19 PM
Comments
Once I was looking for the website of Asian Man Records (record company), and assumed the URL was just asianman dot com. So, while at the office, I carelessly typed in that URL, only to have it bring up a gay po*rn site. I quickly exited, and then found out it was asianmanrecords dot com instead. I'll bet the snoopers in my company's IT department really got riled up by that one.
Posted by: Pete at August 22, 2007 07:16 AM