Kids online: Parents need to regulate, says Ofcom
Parents should take greater responsibility for what their children get up to on the internet, according to Jeremy Olivier, Ofcom’s Head of Convergent Media.
Richard Mollett, Director of Public Affairs for the BPI went a step further. He said: “When it comes to copyright issues, parents may no longer be able to use ignorance as an excuse.”
Both were speaking today at “Taming the Wild Web?”, a keynote forum hosted in Whitehall by Westminster eForums, and bringing together the great and the good from the internet world to discuss issues such as how online content can be regulated, whether all illegal activities should be regulated equally, and who should act as regulator.
Are we now in the “Wild West”, which was eventually tamed; or, as another panellist put it, in a “digital Somalia” – which is presumably beyond the law?
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