Hmmmm,

The original article was certainly a spoof...............it was intended to be taken seriously, as in seriously funny. What gives it away is that the writer displays far too much knowledge to come out with such outrageous statements

ddddc as I see it, it is a question of generations and background............ I would imagine that your parents didn't know anything about computers or the embryonic internet as it was then?

The really "dangerous internet" has only come about in the last 10 years or so. Hell, before then my AV upgrades came by snail mail, once a month, on 3.5" floppies

From what I see around me today, the real issue is one of an apparent breakdown in parenting skills............. buy them this, buy them that, then ignore them.

I would also say that the average parent of teenagers these days still knows little or nothing about computers or the internet. If you do the math there weren't computers in schools in their day, and the computer exposure they might have experienced at work would have been with 5250 dumb terminals or the like.

"Logs", "browser cache", "parental controls", "warez", "P2P".............. most would not have the faintest idea what you were talking about............. I know, there is many a time that I have watched their eyes glaze over