PBS Frontline: Growing Up Online
Friday, February 8th, 2008PBS’s Frontline recently ran a special on kids and the Internet titled “Growing Up Online”. You can watch the entire show online — and I definitely recommend it for anyone involved in education: parents, teachers, administrators, IT.
They address some interesting issues, including:
The disturbing pro-anorexia phenomenon, which I had never heard of until I got into the Internet Filtering industry. Sometimes these sites attempt to walk the line between self-help and truly being pro-anorexia. 8e6’s categorization policy is for pro-ana sites to go into Obscene/Tasteless and anorexia disorder help sites to go into Health. Often, this is a surprisingly close judgment call.
