[Barry the Sprout]

Might I just point out that the news broadcast I saw this in was possibly the most biased piece of reporting I've ever seen. The news reader could barely contain her approval for the scheme and remarked to the person she was interviewing about it: "This is quite obviously the right move, isn't it.", or words to that effect (it was a few days ago - I think that was what she said but I can't remember it word for word).

If anyone thinks that the most dangerous form of human contact is via machines that seperate the people conversing by great distances then they need their head examining. The only thing you can lie about online that you can't lie about in real life is your appearance. It makes little/no sense to think you're any safer talking to someone in a bar, or that they have to be necessarily any more honest.

It reminds me far too much of Brass Eye for my liking: "We estimate Peadophiles are using an area of internet the size of Ireland. We even have footage, that would be too alarming to show, of a child being interfered with by an online peadophile using a penis shaped soundwave. One boy became trapped online by a peadophile for an entire night, and when he was found by his parents he was almost entirely 2D, and had the jaded, listless, sexual appetites of a 63 year old colonel.".