They want to grow and think and make a few mistakes along the way. He believes that presenting kids with the unadorned facts is far more effective than simply telling them what they ought and ought not to do. It takes time, yes. It takes love, yes. The Net is not static, ethics are bendable and parents must be bendable too.
Some kids agree.
When old people start preaching at you, you can almost always find some hypocrisies or bullshit in what they say, and that just makes you want to go right ahead and do whatever they told you not to do. But some adults feel that Schwartau should have defined and delineated cyberethics more clearly in his book. Schwartau is no stranger to controversy. His first book, The Complete Internet Business Toolkit, written with Chris Goggans, the editor of hacker magazine Phrack, was banned from export out of the United States because of its frank discussion of encryption. Internet and Computer Ethics for Kids includes chapters on hacking, passwords, phreaking, privacy, viruses, spam, software piracy, online stalking, pornography, plagiarism and hacktivism.