Pandora’s Blog

This kind of irks me. It’s legislation like this that, while I agree morally with it, it’s not right and it will jeopardize the ability for the governments to come together and pass rational legislation that will HELP the people.
Here’s a story from Indiana that highlights a bill in the stat legislature that basically takes [...]

Here’s a nice scary thought… Do you live in Virginia? Well, over the last 2½ years, state officials have received (during undercover investigations) 215,197 Internet child pornography transactions from nearly 20,000 private computers … in the state of VA. And you still think Internet predators and child pornography is just a little thing that is [...]

This post isn’t shocking because it shows teens being cruel to each other, though the beating is pretty serious and effed up (why was this girl even friends with these people?)… But it’s more shocking – to me at least – because it demonstrates the value that teens have for MySpace, a pedestal that is [...]

Going to share some great developments in 3 states with you today. 2 are from last Friday, but 1 of them is from this week – and something you may have already heard about. This has been all over the news. The report here has a good video package to accompany:
Virginia First State To Make [...]

I meant to write about this last week, but ran out of time on Friday. For all those that say fears are overblown, I submit the following four stories from Wednesday and Thursday of last week. These are abridged versions of the stories; you can click the links for the full monty:

Ohio Cops Help Nab [...]

Earlier this week, the North Country Gazette reported a story about the NY State Senate’s efforts to further increase protections to kids online by taking another whack at would-be predators. Since I live in the state, I have a soft spot for these stories. You can read the full article here: Senate Okays Exploitation Prevention [...]

I came across this Q&A on APP.com with Larry Rosen, professor of psychology at California State University-Dominguez Hills. Rosen has long studied “the Net generation,” the first to grow up with the Internet. I pasted the ENTIRE Q&A below because I think it’s a great take on the issue and has some good information within. [...]

Ripped straight from the headlines… Not an April Fool’s joke…
Campton Man Convicted in Internet Sex Case by Geoff Cunningham Jr. of The Citizen of Laconia in New Hapshire
This first guy was arrested a while back and just recently convicted of attempting to solicit sex from a person he believed to be a minor using the [...]