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February 14, 2008
Fair and balanced assessment of the risks of modernity
Sometimes satire can be the best response to fear-mongering, and eclectech's wonderful response to scare stories about the Internet is a good example.
Here in the UK, we're regularly warned about the dangers of the Internet: paedophiles, identity theft, hackers, viruses... As eclectech puts it, "The world was a safer place before t'internet. Oh yes. No risk out there in the real world, that's mad talk." Indeed, on the Internet
There's danger there You'd better beware It's all a technological snare For that's how evil predators pick their victims.
Just click below to watch the video.
Unless you're watching this on the Internet, of course. In which case, we're all doomed. So you may as well watch a funny video anyway.
