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BANFF 2018: If the web was an amusement park, you’d have to be 12 feet tall to get on a ride!

BANFF – The internet is terrifying enough to me as an adult dealing with its underbelly of malice, lies, trolls, and subterfuge.For unknowing children it’s too often a madhouse of horrors running the gamut from inappropriate content, to lurking strangers, to personality theft, to terribly wounding comments, to outright predators. Some times these web injuries even lead to suicide.Yet from the minute they’re born, young ones are now exposed to digital surroundings that will inevitably be their way of life and since the World Wide Web plays an increasing role in our children’s and grandchildren’s lives, how do we keep...