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Originally Posted by DonovanPhillips
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BUT when we take this very hard content and give it away free on sites that are easy for children to access, is it any wonder the government decides to crack down?
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a common idea that has been passed around in anti-porn discussions and in white papers is on the issue of children having easy access to porn.
there are 3 common ways that children can find porn:
1) word of mouth
2) email spam
3) search engines
on point #1, kids talk to each other. they know about theHun, PK, etc. these kinds of porn directories is how kids can find porn.
on point #2, spam is a big problem with those spammers that do brute force spamming of not using a list, but making up email addresses to yahoo, hotmail, etc.. but i would guess that more spam is done from email lists that have been resold a hundred times, and probably 99% of those are adult email addresses
on point #3, try entering search terms that kids would enter (non-adult), and you will probably never find any adult links coming back.
so how are kids epidemically being exposed to free porn?
i don't think they are, i believe there are kids that do seek it out.
the 'harm' to kids, to me, are ones of the age of 14 and under. these are truly "kids" that might be harmed by seeing graphic sexual depictions.
the search engines try their best to bring back relevant results. so when a child enters keywords, the chances of seeing porn links is low unless a porn website (most likely an affiliate) uses keywords that children might use (which is a point that anti-porn people site), but the effort to attract children to porn seems to be a wasted marketing effort and of resources since children with credit cards who would buy porn would seem to be a very very very very small percentage.
the best way to keep kids away, is to have the .KIDS TLD in place.
parents could then use software (like a modified version of IE or firefox) that would ONLY allow .KIDS extensions.
.XXX will never prevent a child from seeing porn due to its blacklisting approach.
i thnk because adults get adult-spam, and search in google using 'adult' words, and see adult results and websites, that they think kids might see the exact same thing. i would debate that this assumption is not true, with no solid facts by anti-porn pundits to support their claims of children being exposed to the "free porn".
yes, "free porn" is out there in the hundreds of millions of web pages, but the way that a surfer can find those pages is because they are looking specifically for them... and if a child is looking for porn, they aren't being "exposed", they are getting what they are seeking.. and this is where parental monitoring and technology filtering/blocking in using .KIDS will be the answer that truly keeps kids from seeing porn.
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