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Are the Kids on the Internet Alright After All?

There is widespread distress about the dangers faced by young people on the Internet. A crackdown on digital social networking might be exactly the wrong solution.

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By Warren Olney • Feb 20, 2014 • 51m Listen

Among parents, teachers and other adults, there is widespread distress about the dangers faced by young people on the Internet. We hear that a crackdown on digital social networking might be exactly the wrong solution, especially from the kids' point of view. Also, the EU imposes sanctions as the death toll rises in Kiev, and the swine flu is back — not a return to the pandemic of 2009, but bad enough to cause deaths, even among children and middle-aged adults.

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