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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 9730176" data-attributes="member: 92282">The Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC) today said  telecommunication service providers have been requested to encourage  parents to prevent underage children from viewing social networking  sites on the internet at home.TRC Director General, Anusha Palpita said blocking access to a website  would not be effective because underage children would find other ways  of accessing the prohibited sites. “There is not much we can do to restrict children from using social  networking sites. Therefore we have appealed to parents through the  service providers to control or prevent the use of undesirable sites by  using suitable computer software,” Mr. Palpita said. He said the TRC received complaints from several parents, the police or  the Child Protection Authority on the use of social networking sites by  children. “The TRC will block a website if it receives a court order to do so. We  have already blocked more than 1,000 such websites on Court directives,”  he said. Meanwhile Facebook, the world’s largest social networking site recently  reported that daily it blocks more than 20,000 children below the age of  13 from using the site. Dailymirror</blockquote>

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