Kids sell drugs to other kids, and the crime rate among teenagers escalates every year.
Porn sites continue to make the headlines, as do stories of adults who prey on the innocent.
Surely, in an entity as enormous and powerful as the Internet, we can find something positive, something good. Several months ago, I answered an advertisement to write for an Internet publication called The Sunshine Post, a newsletter for helping subscribers with computers and on-line services. I was quite impressed with the efficiency and intelligence of the editor, Joshua Holt. When Joshua was 14, his family moved to Arkansas from Texas, leaving behind his friends and social activities but taking his America Online subscription with him. In those first months after the move, Joshua spent more and more time on the computer since he knew no one in town.