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Online safety as we know it is obsolete by Anne Collier, NetFamilyNews.org and ConnectSafely.org I. Why obsolete? a. Rooted in the ancient past - Web 1.0 - the Web of hyperlinked, static, one-tomany "content" and clunky discussion boards and chatrooms, with users as consumers/downloaders, and young users seen and referred to pervasively as potential victims. (Obviously we've moved on to a multiplatform, fixed and mobile highly user-produced environment, with users as full participants.) b. Online safety 1.0 is dominated by lawyers and law enforcement people - wellmeaning, of course - but experts in crime (many online -safety meetings for parents and students in schools are still given by police, ICAC members, FBI agents, etc.) c. When crime is where expertise lies, criminals - predators - become the focus of all discussion, and fear underlies it. Yet we know now that probably less than one-tenth of 1% of teens are at risk of sexual exploitation as a result of any Internet activity (and even fewer children under 13), according to UNH's Crimes Against Children Research Center, and meanwhile the most common risk online kids face is peer harassment - non-criminal adolescent behavior. d. The predator p anic