Apple should sue!!! (tongue-in-cheek, sort of)
I hate to see it when some teen girl becomes the victim of a sexual predator through the internet. But I noticed that when they showed the picture of the perv and mentioned that he had facilitated his attack through a computer, they showed a picture of a Pismo PowerBook! Not a police photo or anything, just one of Apple's publicity photos. They just did it for effect.
Then, of course, they showed the good guys all using PCs. That ticked me off.
Then they quoted some bogus, out of context figure about how teens have a 75% chance of being approached for sex if they go into a chat room. Of course, they not only failed to provide any context or information, they also failed to cite a source of that figure (even in fine print at the bottom of the screen). I bet they came up with that figure by looking at what percentage of teen chat room visitors happen to go to chat rooms frequented by advertising bots for porn sites. Stupid, stupid, stupid. When can the news be good instead of shitty?
Then, of course, they showed the good guys all using PCs. That ticked me off.
Then they quoted some bogus, out of context figure about how teens have a 75% chance of being approached for sex if they go into a chat room. Of course, they not only failed to provide any context or information, they also failed to cite a source of that figure (even in fine print at the bottom of the screen). I bet they came up with that figure by looking at what percentage of teen chat room visitors happen to go to chat rooms frequented by advertising bots for porn sites. Stupid, stupid, stupid. When can the news be good instead of shitty?
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How in the world did they get this number. First off, it doesn't take into account whether these "teens" are male or female. I would bet if all the male teens from this board went into a chat room, none would get approached for sex. Unless, like you said the were counting the spam sex messages. Also how do people know they are teens? Do they go into a board and say "Hello, I am hot 18 year girl looking for someone to talk to." In that case, yes I would believe the 75% number.
In does suck that a apple computer was protrayed as the "bad guy computer" in this case, but it is usually the opposite so I guess we can't complain ( like in 24 when the mole used a PC and everyone else used macs ).
<strong>"...teens have a 75% chance of being approached for sex if they go into a chat room."
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When I was a teen, I never had a 75% chance of being approached for sex.