Rubin Report: Elf on the Shelf's Dirty Secret

[WhoIsNumberNone]

Not familiar with the Elf on the Shelf? See a clip of the elf in the video.

A digital technology professor at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology recently published a paper about Elf on the Shelf, suggesting that these elves may not be so innocent after all.

[RBInMaine]

1. Total OVERREACTION to Elf on a Shelf. This is NONSENSE. Elf on a Shelf is just a fun Christmas

season thing for kids, not "surveillance" and certainly not how parents are trying to teach their kids to be good, as if this is their entire way of doing that. It's just a Christmas thing. My goodness folks, go fry some bigger fish.

[yeoman6987]

2. We bought one. It is a fun game of what is basically

Hide and seek. The kids love it.

[Dustlawyer]

3. My grand kids loved "Elliot" and can't wait for him to come back next year!

[James48]

4. Papers please....

May I see your papers?

[RBInMaine]

5. Over Elf on a Shelf? Please. Elf on a Shelf is a FUN kids' thing at Christmas and that's all.

Some people really need to get a life. There is NOTHING bad about Elf on a Shelf. Good grief.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

7. "There is NOTHING bad about Elf on a Shelf"

Depends on who's shelf...

[Jack Rabbit]

6. I was told that Santa is watching me

Given that I am 63, was that conditioning for a surveillance state? Or were my parents just buying into McCarthyism or J. Edgar Hoover?

Sorry. I'm still a Fourth Amendment purist, but I still think that Santa Claus is benevolent and that the NSA is not awesome.