White House Computer Policy

Posted May 4th 2010 8:13AM by Francis Duncan
Filed under: Technology, Articles of Interest

When Obama was first elected President, he made big waves by insisting on keeping his BlackBerry. He won that battle and became the "first e-mailing President". The next logical battle in the White House was bound to be how much time the first daughters can spend online.

First Lady, Michelle Obama told CNN that in their household, there is no TV, Internet or phones for the kids during the week. I am curious how Sasha (age 9 this year) and Malia (who turns 12 this year) feel about this policy.

What are the rules in your house about Internet, TV and telephone use?

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Daniel 5-05-2010 @ 9:39AM

At my house, we had a lot of rules when the internet first came out. Nowadays though my parents really don't care about who I interact with on the web because they know that I have been around it long enough to know what is right and wrong. But I did make a post on what was some great internet safety ideas. Here is a link to the post on my blog.
http://yovia.com/blogs/chatman/2010/05/04/how-to-talk-to-your-kids-on-internet-safety/?gcid=1677

Francis Duncan 5-05-2010 @ 9:41AM

It is interesting that these guidelines helped you - good to hear it. Now that you know right from wrong, do your parents still participate in your online activity as you suggest in your blog entry?