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It happened again: prepubescent 11-year-old exposed to adult content and his mother goes to go on the war path. Apparently the unnamed son of named Rosie Garcia received “pornography” (she didn’t specify exactly what was sent) through Xbox LIVE from a gamer he met online. Since this was an obvious failure in the LIVE system, Ms. Garcia contacted both Xbox LIVE to provide the perpetrator’s Gamertag and used the complaint form, only after contacting the police.
“When they are playing against their friends, it’s a controlled environment,” Ms. Garcia explained to San Antonio’s News Channel 9 on the matter. “But when they join a party, it can be someone in Japan, Australia, anywhere in the world.” The part she seems to not understand is that she is the one in control of the ‘environment’ her son plays in, not Xbox LIVE. Someone point her in the direction of parental controls, no, parental supervision before her cries are heard by other misinformed parents.
Oh wait, these cries are never heard by the general public. Incidents like these happen all the time and it’s practically a retelling of The Boy Who Cried Wolf, except that the wolf and the boy are actually one and the same. Parental negligence has even tried to take itself to new heights with motions for a “cleaner” Xbox LIVE, denying an entire community of a service just to ensure their children can’t stumble across it when gaming unsupervised.
As of this posting there are 45 signatures on that petition, most of which are trolls looking to make a mockery of the matter, not that it takes much effort to do so.
“When they are playing against their friends, it’s a controlled environment,” Ms. Garcia explained to San Antonio’s News Channel 9 on the matter. “But when they join a party, it can be someone in Japan, Australia, anywhere in the world.” The part she seems to not understand is that she is the one in control of the ‘environment’ her son plays in, not Xbox LIVE. Someone point her in the direction of parental controls, no, parental supervision before her cries are heard by other misinformed parents.
Oh wait, these cries are never heard by the general public. Incidents like these happen all the time and it’s practically a retelling of The Boy Who Cried Wolf, except that the wolf and the boy are actually one and the same. Parental negligence has even tried to take itself to new heights with motions for a “cleaner” Xbox LIVE, denying an entire community of a service just to ensure their children can’t stumble across it when gaming unsupervised.
As of this posting there are 45 signatures on that petition, most of which are trolls looking to make a mockery of the matter, not that it takes much effort to do so.
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