Internet Safety Day

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InSafe is a Council of Europe sponsored organization promoting Internet safety information. Did you know about Safer Internet Day? One is tempted to mock such earnestness. Or you could,

Write about your journey with friends from all over the world in the exciting and sometimes dangerous cyber world of Internet and mobile technology. Take along a magical helper from the Kingdom of Internet safety.

I’m taking Alpha Dog who is good at “digging down spam”.
But seriously, what makes this site so bizarre is that it is written for children, but designed for adults. I can’t imagine any child reading pages of this stuff without any graphics and I find it hard to imagine adults reading this without cringing. Perhaps the graphical version is coming. Compare with the Canadian Media Awareness Network (MNet) to see what I mean.

One more quote,

These three helpers are really Knights of the Cyber World. They have been summoned by the Council of Emerging Technologies with the mission to keep Internet safe and make it a great place for meeting new friends and feeling a sense of belonging in our global world.

I didn’t know the Council of Emerging Technologies had such power!