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PACE — Rep. Matt Gaetz joined Google March 27 at Sims Middle School for the Online Safety Road Show, teaching students to be smart and responsible on the Internet.
Gaetz addressed a gymnasium full of students and discussed ways the Internet has its advantages and disadvantages. When a student asked him how they are supposed to trust the Internet when it is inherently unsafe, he told her to run for Congress one day.
“This is a new facet of your adulthood that you will encounter that I did not have to encounter,” Gaetz said. “The image you create for yourself online — start thinking about that now.”
Representatives from Google then discussed online safety tips, including “be Internet smart and share with care” and “be internet alert and don’t fall for fake.”
The representatives discussed ways to spot potential scams and demonstrated how quickly information can spread on the web.
Google created the program in partnership with principals and child safety groups, National Association of Secondary School Principals and iKeepSafe, to develop a digital literacy assembly that could be shared across the country, according to a press release.
This article originally appeared on Santa Rosa Press Gazette: Gaetz, Google teach internet safety to students