I’m a big fan of the Internet and using it in class, but every once in a while something reminds you that there is something nasty about it, too.
This article is about a B.C. couple that supposedly tried to sell their baby on the popular Internet site, Craiglist. The couple claimed the whole thing was a joke, but the police and child services aren’t quite sure just yet. An article I saw in the National Post indicated the police only came upon this ad because a local woman spotted it and notified police.
This raises some scary possibilities. How do you prevent this kind of thing from happening on something as diffused as the Internet? While this event is supposedly a joke, who’s to say the next baby sale will be, or that anyone will actually report it to the police?
The Internet has so many fascinating possibilities, but it’s also a scary and weird place.