Presumed guilty until proven innocent. If you can afford it.

[mr ploppy]

Originally Posted by teh603

Its all fun and games until someone uses magnets to attach a bundle of drugs to the underside of your car or cracks your computer's security and sets up a kiddie porn repository by remote control. You have no reasonable way of preventing it or even knowing it happened, but you're still accountable for it.

Same thing goes with children; they'll usually do something you had no reasonable way to expect, and leave you holding the bag.

You might find this interesting. Assuming it's true, it would be a good way of getting rid of an internet enemy. All you would need would be an email or an ISP usenet post from them.

http://www.daniweb.com/hardware-and-.../threads/78930

[ignacio ferrer]

Originally Posted by howyoudoin

It's a spin on the old "Why are you opposed to the government doing XYZ by invading your privacy if you have nothing to hide?" argument. It's the conflation of two issues in order to avoid addressing the main point. You can focus on the errant child and the apathetic parent, but that is no excuse to not address the issue of the lumping together of the guilty and the innocent.

The problem seems to be that you don't want to get the point that this is not a unique construction.
Say you live on rent in an apartment with your family and your kid plays music very loud and disturbs the rest of the house - then you will be held responsible and it is you who has to hold your kid responsible.
The landlord will not deal with the kid.
This has nothing to do with guilty or innocent.
Has to do with the contract you signed.