A new Barbie doll has parents urging for a boycott. This new Barbie doll comes equipped with a camera which children can use to record footage of themselves playing.
This Barbie doll sounds pretty cool - and surely will make the top of your child’s wish list this holiday season. However, before you buy, you may want to hear why some parents are calling for a boycott.
The tiny camera is in the form of a small LCD screen which is cleverly hidden in the doll’s necklace. Kids can record themselves playing for up to 30 minutes at a time and are instantly able to play back the recorded footage.
That sounds fun! However – this is the part that has experts concerned. Your child can also upload this footage into the computer and share their play sessions online with their friends.
Sally-Anne McCormack, a clinical psychologist in Australia, says the toy could be abused as a "potentially pornographic tool." According to MSNBC, she said “it would be easy for someone with perverse intentions to hand the doll to a child†and she counsels children already about the dangers of being filmed unknowingly.
Sadly, McCormack makes a valid point – there certainly are creeps out there who could use the doll manipulatively. Children – and parents - should be cautioned of the potential dangers of being recorded and posting the footage on the internet.
At this time, the Barbie doll by Mattel is retailing for $110.
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Photo Credit: The North West Star
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Comments: 2
Sounds to me like the news media is trying to increase hysteria. (Hmm, hysterical people are easily conquered, led around by their lack of intelligence and enslaved by their own hysteria).
Can anybody think of any other devices that can potentially be used for pornography that the world (and news media) readily embraces? Can you say, "Cellulose cameras, VHS, VCR, web cam, nanny cam, spy cam, digital camcorders....ugh!?" Help me! Help me! The world is sooooooo....human and ripe for enslavement.
If you want to be protected from EVERYTHING, I will protect you, but you will have to give me complete authority to tell you what you and everybody else can and can't do and give me all your and their property, too, so I can afford to do it. You won't be able to vote me out, either, even if you don't like the way I am doing things.