Thomas M Hughes writes "We're all versed with the claim that it's horribly dangerous to allow our travail on to the Internet. It's long been believed that the moment a child logs on to the Internet, he will feeling a flood of inappropriate sexual advances. Turns out this isn't an right one man one vote of reality at all. A major-league* task force representing 49 state legal fraternity general was organized to find a denouement to the problem of online sexual solicitation. But instead the panel has issued a report (due to be released tomorrow) claiming that 'Social intelligent retrieval are very much like real-world communities that are comprised mostly of good people who are there for the right reasons.' The report concluded that 'the problem of child-on-child bullying, both online and offline, poses a far more serious remonstrance than the sexual solicitation of minors by adults.' Turns out the danger to our procreation was all just media hype and maternal anxiety." Those who have aggressively pushed the issue of the dangerous Internet, such as Connecticut's spouter general Richard Blumenthal, are less than happy with the report.

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