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Originally Posted by TorqueDog

Yep, agreed. I don't know from where these pearl-clutchers get this naïve image of children as these innocent, uncorrupted little angels; Do they forget their own childhood? Children are little hellions. You know how the kids in early episodes of South Park talked to each other? That's not fiction, that's how eight-year-olds talk when adults aren't around.

Before Shaw got fully into the cable ISP game (actually it was "Videon" back then in Winnipeg), dipped their feet into this whole "Internet on your TV" trial thing where you had what was effectively a desktop computer and TV-out adapter packaged with a wireless keyboard and remote.

When my parents weren't around, you bet your ass that my dumb little buddies and I looked for pr0n on that thing. Parental controls? Hah, I was the parental control, so if I didn't want them using it, I could lock it down far better than they could. Once Videon axed the TV Internet offering, we got 56k dial-up on our actual computer and the search for boobies raged on.

It is 100% a parental responsibility to talk to their kids after this sort of stuff. Parents have funny priorities though, my parents wouldn't let me rent Mortal Kombat II for my Sega Genesis after they saw me play it one time, but Die Hard and Die Hard 2 were mainstays at Christmas time... you know, including that scene where a guy gets an icicle jabbed INTO HIS F--KING EYESOCKET.

A Florida teacher was fired for showing Michelangelo’s David to a grade six class. The horror of seeing a stone penis. (Not a rock penis)