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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.

Posted by jon_mendel at February 14, 2008 12:40 AM

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