Tag: Online Safety

http://tyrongtyger.tumblr.com/post/75609394847/dazzlemcpaw-tyrongtyger-needs-more-pony

tyrongtyger:

dazzlemcpaw:

So here’s the biggest question of all:

Why did this ‘Lori’ woman have her safe search off while her four year old daughter was on the internet by herself?

Probable short answer?

She didn’t. Made it ALL up.

I wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss it like that. Maybe SafeSearch was just turned off without anyone’s knowledge (that seems to be the case with my computer), and Lori didn’t know about it.

http://dazzlemcpaw.tumblr.com/post/75606953974/heartlinda-in-re-dazzlemcpaw-whos-lori

dazzlemcpaw:

heartlinda:

dazzlemcpaw:

So here’s the biggest question of all:

Why did this ‘Lori’ woman have her safe search off while her four year old daughter was on the internet by herself?

Wait, who?

Not sure if you happened to see a really ‘angry mother’ from a ‘mumblr’ group, complain to someone about how she left her four year old daughter on a computer with internet capabilities, and claims that her four year old happened to search ‘My Little Pony’ on Google and found NSFW images.

Now, the only way to actually find NSFW links, or images would be to have the Google Safe Search off, and even then, it still takes a while to find the NSFW content.

I get that anyone should be able to search anything without worrying about running across something, but my biggest point is, why are you going to leave a child on the internet without knowing how to filter through specific keywords and not know how to use the safe search engine?

Essentially, safe search is the default setting on Google, so this woman must have been looking for something with the safe search OFF for her four year old daughter to run across a nsfw picture consisting of MLP. And she insists her daughter KNOWS what was going on in the pictures, so that actually raises more questions as to what she’s taught her daughter overall.

That’s my only issue :l The fandom needs to tag their shit, yes, but a four year old REALLY doesn’t need to be on the internet, especially if someone doesn’t have the safe search on.

Oh, so this is what you’re talking about! Huh, I never noticed that it’s signed “Lori”.

Regarding what you’ve said: I would assume that SafeSearch is on by default, but for some reason my computer has it off, and I don’t remember ever changing the settings. Maybe I did change them. :/

But otherwise I totally agree. Please collect your award of This. :D

http://dazzlemcpaw.tumblr.com/post/75602062943/tyrongtyger-needs-more-pony-heartlinda

dazzlemcpaw:

tyrongtyger:

I just checked this. Not even a hint of porn. I even got specific and added pony names. Nothing.

I’m calling bullshit on anyone who says they find porn on a generic Google search. You don’t find shit unless you’re specifically looking.

So here’s the biggest question of all:

Why did this ‘Lori’ woman have her safe search off while her four year old daughter was on the internet by herself?

Wait, who?

EDIT: I’ve included a link to the original post for context.

Well, I’m not “literally” standing up because I was sitting when I wrote that post (and am sitting now as I answer this). But I am literally supporting them. (I’m one of them!)

Just because you focused on the point of children finding this content (which is justified, I suppose), I decided to do an experiment: I went to image search on Google, turned on SafeSearch, and just put in the names of the main six characters: Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Applejack, and Fluttershy. The most sexually suggestive images I could find in the first few pages were Twilight Sparkle in bed and a back-nude humanized Fluttershy, which aren’t explicit. Down the list are some “wet-mane” and “bedroom-eye” ponies. You can try this for yourself to draw your own conclusions, but I think people who are into this (actually Google and SafeSearch, really) indeed have done a generally good job of keeping this away from children.

I also want to bring up a post I reblogged a few months ago. It specifically concerns the blog “Ask Princess Molestia” and the “Down with Molestia” movement against it, but it makes a good point about the whole “children might find it” argument. In short, it’s the parents’ responsibility to make sure that children aren’t exposed to things they shouldn’t be seeing. The post states that content creators have given parents the tools to do so (“ratings and tags”). I think I’ve taken the appropriate measures on my end. My blog description advises that this blog is “highly NSFW.” The blog has been marked so on Tumblr since I created it, meaning that my posts are generally hidden from people on Tumblr unless they disable “Safe Mode”. (More information.)

I am concerned about young children being exposed to this sort of content. But the Internet has much more than this that children shouldn’t be seeing, including content based on other cartoon characters children enjoy. This, too, has been kept out of “public” view, and My Little Pony is no different. (Just for reference I searched Princess Peach, which as I’m writing this is at the top of this list, which is basically a “most gotten-off-to” characters list. I didn’t find anything inappropriate for children.)