I don't know about the millions of people in developing countries going online for the first time with mobile phones but, here in the developed world, something strange happened when we moved onto the Web nearly 20 years ago. It's as if we checked our thousands of years of social-norms and ethics development at the door of cyberspace. Somehow we saw that space as "technology" and got stuck there – … [Read more...] about ‘Disconnected’: Crucial book for closing the ‘ethics gap’ online
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A Missouri law: Well-intentioned but flawed
Missouri is the "11th worst state in the nation for teachers losing their license for sexual misconduct," State Sen. Jane Cunningham told my ConnectSafely co-director Larry Magid in an interview for CNET. So she sponsored a new law aimed at protecting students from such misconduct. It's great the law makes it much harder to "pass the trash," a term that Senator Cunningham explained refers to … [Read more...] about A Missouri law: Well-intentioned but flawed