I think that this is a very difficult subject. I personally think that parents should be responsible for taking the time to know about the internet generally, and should be responsible for limiting the amount of time their children spends time on both chat and the internet. Knowing that your child is on for 6 hours a day or even not knowing is something you should be worried about; it's like knowing or not knowing you child is out on their own from dusk 'til dawn. It would be seen as the parents' responsibility to make sure their children are safe at home, as well as make sure their children are safe WITHIN the home. If you limit how long they're on for, they can't build too much of a relationship with these people, although it still would be possible.
I kinda agree with what you said about policing, I personally wouldn't like them looking at what I'm typing to someone else. If there was some kind of pattern that they can try to look into that these paedophiles do... maybe they can use a certain strategy of monitoring rather than monitoring everything unnecessarily, invading other people's privacy at the same time. It's like recording everyone's conversations in the home or in the streets... it's not right.
It's a really difficult task to police people who are anonymous. They need to research more I think.
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