Total Depravity of the Internet

Well, we all know the Internet has some very, very bad things about it, as well as a tremedous amount of good. But if you're like me at all, when you think of the bad, I tend to think of porn/sex and stuff. Luckily apart from my experiences when first getting webcammed and not being the most savvy person out there as to what I may come across, (my next experience with a web cam..as I pronto got rid of after that!) is to have KFC with Beth's daughter! but the only time it tends to be a problem personally I find is pop ups which my pop up blocker now stops for the most part....But...

A few months ago, I was watching a documentary on anorexia nervosa.... and was somewhat shocked that there were website dedicated to feeding" (no pun intended) these girls young women's delusions about being fat, and advise for how to be anorexic and hide it etc, and basically helping them starve themselves to death. And now are somewhat more horrified, or just as much anyhow, as there are websites out there which pray on young or vulnerable people to help them commit suicide. They teach them exactly the best way to do it, how to hide they are planning this from their family. And even stuff like how to infect oneself with HIV and how much of the virus one would need to successfully infect etc... its horrendous.

And there's not much at all can be done about policing these sites. There was a middle-aged couple on the talk show I watched whose son had committed suicide with the help of these websites. He had never been suicidal or depressed in his life, six months after getting involved with these sites he was dead.

There are only three categories apparently here at least where legal action can be taken for policing websites. Pornography, racism, and can't recall the other one. But nothing related to the two above.

Tis pretty sick tho all the same.


Jeremiah 17
9 The heart is deceitful above all things
and beyond cure.
Who can understand it?


[NIV]
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