Yearbook Blacks Out Kids' Eyes for Fear of Porn Potential - ParentDish

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this is officially the dumbest thing I've seen in a month.

Yearbook Blacks Out Kids' Eyes for Fear of Porn Potential - ParentDish

What would you do if you got your kids' yearbook and all the eyes had been blacked out with magic marker?

Personally, I'd try to wake up. But at a school in England, the principal is very much awake and behind this whole thing. Apparently, she was so worried someone might cut out the kids' faces, paste them on child porn pictures and post them on the Internet -- yes, that's really her concern -- that she ordered the teachers to manually black out all the children' eyes.

Let's pause for a second to consider how lovely an illustration this is of what I call "Worst-First" thinking. That is, thinking up the worst, most perverse explanation for something first, instead of assuming a less dramatic, but far more likely, rationale.

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Note: this story is from the Daily Mail, a tabloid. I can't find any other source which isn't derived from that paper (if you can, please let me know).

So while it may be true (and gods know people have done weirder things in the name of "protecting the children", including arresting parents for taking a snap of their kid nude in a paddling pool and taking the film to be developed) treat it with a pinch of salt.

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And thank goodness such stupidity is not universal - our kid's school makes no such prohibition on taking pictures or videos at concerts, assemblies, nativities, sportsday etc.