[LINK] new acronym - BOTN

Brendan Scott brendansweb at optusnet.com.au
Mon Aug 4 22:05:01 AEST 2008


Jan Whitaker wrote:
> Because of the Net
> 
> http://www.theage.com.au/national/net-blamed-as-10000-kids-turn-to-crime-20080802-3p00.html?page=-1

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> Victoria Police say the escalation in juvenile 
> crimes ­ ranging from break and enters to drug 
> offences and assaults ­ is being fuelled by 
> children's growing exposure to sexual and violent images on the internet.

I don't get the connection between the exposure to sexual (or indeed violent) images on the internet and break and enter or drug offences (although there's presumably a connection between violent images and assaults - at least if the mode of assault is similar to depictions in the violent images). 

I'd much prefer to lay the blame at the TV shows and movies that kids watch, in which (typically - the Boobahs are obviously an exception) any problem facing the protagonist is solved by the brusque application of violence by "goodies" to "baddies". 

Brendan 







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