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Computer Ethics/Protection

How do you teach ethics to children? When? And now, when they are exposed to the Internet at such an early age, how do schools approach "safe computing"? Does the school have the responsibility (or even the right) to do so? For example, many people think that "sharing" music is completely acceptable. Others think any sharing is wrong. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle. What else do we need to teach our children about computers? Is virus creation wrong? Or is is okay as long as it's not distributed? What other ideas do we need to pass on? How do we pass netiquette on to our kids?

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