Internet Flirting Hurts Kids

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The general argument made by Melinda D. Anderson in her work “How Internet Flirting Hurts Kids,” is that full student access to the Internet has become limited by excessive censorship by school districts. More specifically, Anderson argues that districts are enforcing too many barriers on the Internet that it can barricade a student’s ability to learn. She writes, “the pernicious practice by school districts of overzealous Internet censorship” has been used too much that it does not simply keep students safe from obscene content, instead it obstructs knowledge. Censorship on YouTube for example, creates a barrier for students to learn from tutorials or lectures online. In this passage, Anderson is suggesting that districts are overusing their