Shall we sue the maker of the deadbolts locks or the doorframe if a person kicks in the door kid and snatches a child from their sleep?

Shall we sue all the cities that don’t provide security at their have public parks that have been the scenes of kidnappings and abductions over the years?

My point is that we’ve all been taught for year, “Don’t talk to strangers” and as a parent myself, with kids on the internet, I have to take that same philosophy and apply it to the internet.

People need to learn to take personal responsibility for their actions or, in this case, their inaction of not properly teaching their children about the dangers of online predators.

You can damn well bet my kids know.

The internet, and not just one specific site, is a place where it’s easy to disguise yourself and do a lot of mischief on many different levels.

(Full disclosure; I work for a News Corp TV Station)

These “bad bad internet” stories have been around pretty much since Day One. Has anyone figured out whether the rate of child abuse has gone up since the advent of the internet, I wonder? I suspect if there were such a study, and it suggested any such thing, we’d have heard about it. I do know that the # of rundown, sleazy porn theaters has dropped like a rock with video and the internet to “blame”.

The real story on this type of thing is often counter-intuitve, and counter to the political-media complex drumbeat.

Also, two-thirds of mySpacers keep their profiles private, something these victims apparently did not. If mySpace provides this option, how liable should they be for activities of those who don’t exercise it?

This lawsuit won’t stop predators, and if it doesn’t, then all it is is a bunch of lawyers making money (again) off of somebody else’s tragedy.