ooh. where are these nanniebots. i wanna talk to one. i'm um..lonely here at work.

Between the nanniebots and porn bots, are there any actual people left in chat rooms?

Conversing on-line is different than pulling up in a van and promising candy or to pet a puppy.

The Internet is not a babysitter and no piece of software can fill the gap for neglected parental responsibility. This will rank up there with cameras on street corners, which have proven to not be as effective in Brittan as promised.

I love how that one guy gets to determine what is "suspicious activity." I'd say anyone who is so obsessed with pedophilia that he writes a program about it and then continues to monitor it and he's not even a law enforcement officer is highly suspect in his own right.

I don't believe that it could carry on a convincing enough conversation to fool anyone. I mean, I'd think that the fact that they're bots would be obvious a mile away, unless some random busybody in England has made a stunning breakthrough in AI.

stuff like this is really interesting to me. b/c it's always framed around stuff that it's really difficult to disagree with (in this case: let's stop pedophiles!). but the implications of lots of little nanniebots out there makes the part of me that is into stuff like .... rights .... kinda freak out. it's just all very focault / system of discipline kinda thing.

I think things like this are the wedge used to get surveillance into the Internet. You let bots in to look for pervs, because, obviously, pedophilia is bad, but once those bots are in there, they can check to see who's saying mean things about Dubya, who's saying bad things about religion...It's much easier said than done to keep this stuff from being used for other purposes.

[Edited on Mar 17, 2004 by jake_lex]

Would you feel bad about fucking a fake person? Who was it, Jude Law as a robotic prostitute in Pinochio remake? Sec... Ah, yes, "A.I."

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Best case scenario, I'd say this guy is a little strange. A one man anti-pedophile army. I've got an idea, why don't we turn him loose on Michael Jackson?

d00d....I
Sooooooo told you that ,that nullwasn't really Emmanuel Lewis in that chatroom , but did you listen to me?... Noooooooo. Mr. Big Stuff...you twisto pervo, you. As soon as you get there, write and let me know where to send the wig and the soap -on-a-rope....

P.S. You Senator, are no Pete Townsend.. so don't gimmie that hogwash about "research"...

Haha. Digital vigilantism.

I have serious doubts about this working in any real world test or situation. Even if it did, the necessary hurdles involved to get personal information from ISP's or websites offering these services will take so much time that after 10-15 false reports (30 year-olds posing as 12 year-old etc.) it will simply devolve into a boy-who-cried-wolf scenario.

Personally, I find this tactic a lot more effective. Sure, the results are hard to quantify, but it's got to work.