Kids surf sites with ‘explicit sex, violence’

p2pnet news view Alongside the ‘news’ that the Vevo movie thingy is actually an advertising machine comes another startling revelation: “Even a minimally savvy youngster can figure out how to access violent or explicitly sexual content in some virtual or Internet worlds”. So says a Federal Trade Commission survey quoted by Reuters . “In its survey of online worlds, where users create digital alter egos called avatars and interact with other users’ avatars, the commission found that seven of the worlds with the most explicit sex and violence set a minimum age of 13 and an eighth set a minimum age of 18,” says the story.

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Kids surf sites with ‘explicit sex, violence’

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Friday, December 11th, 2009 P2P News

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