I’ve long asserted that the “fact” that we live in a more dangerous world now than when we were kids is way more perception than reality. Not that we shouldn’t be vigilant and take reasonable precautions. But predators don’t lurk in every shadow. However, bad things do happen. It’s just that the news of a bad thing happening to someone in a suburb of Topeka used to be contained to the metro area. Now Anderson Cooper runs a 15 minute segment on it and Nancy Grace investigates. The reality of 24 hour news networks is that small but sensational news gets disproportionate coverage.

So this article comes as refreshing vindication for at least part of my view. It turns out that the Internet is not the seamy digital underworld full of pedophiles the media would have us believe. In fact, it would seem the Internet is not an especially dangerous place for kids at all. A story I’m sure will not be covered by AC 360.