Children are the largest consumers of internet porn
 

This was brought up yet once again by Blanche Lincoln (D-Arkansas) at the start of the hearings.

The claim is that children aged 12-17 are the largest consumers of internet porn.

Doesn't that mean our traffic logs should show drastic decreases in traffic during school hours? There should also be decreases during the hours school kids are asleep. That means there should be a HUGE spike from mid-afternoon until late evening. There isn't one adult webmaster whose logs look like that.

The sites I have that are almost all American traffic actually show that the biggest block of traffic comes DURING SCHOOL HOURS.

This 12-17 figure must have come from a survey. Kids are more likely to admit to things than adults. Especially since porn is very taboo for adults to admit to viewing.

I am so sick of these fuckin' idiots. Always spinning shit to make us look evil. WTF!! Get over it, god damn it's just sex.

Think of how much money we could be making if those kids only had credit cards!

In all seriousness, that woman must have been hit right in the mouth with the stupid stick on her way into the hearing.

I'm pretty sure that figure came from:

http://www.femaleflood.com/teach-my-...-gaped-ass.jpg

or at least someone's ass :1orglaugh

I sure hope someone representing adult brings up American traffic logs to debunk the claim. Once you bring that up, there is no argument anymore. It is something that can not be refuted.

I don't see what's so wrong with kids jerking off? Do they prefer kids have sex and knock up their 15 year old girlfriend?

This actually is pretty sad. In todays world, a 10 y/o can go online and get basically slammed with porn.

And no, it's not their parents problem. no matter how hard they try, it's nearly impossible to screen the kids from Internet porn - it's just everywhere.

From her web site

http://lincoln.senate.gov/press_show.cfm?id=241537


?Many internet service providers have taken significant steps to provide parents with tools to protect their children from inappropriate material online and they should be commended. But sadly, many adult oriented websites in today?s online world are not only failing to keep products unsuitable for children from view, but are also pushing those products in children?s faces. And it?s time that we stand up and say, enough is enough.?


Give me a fuckin break. She needs to be recalled. Any webmasters in Ark.??

You can thank people like KMR who spam places like MySpace which is full of nothing but children.

like thats a good thing? little does mr politician know we make money from sales, if no sales no money. even for prepaid slots, no sales no future money.

maybe parents should take a bit more responsibility

Sounds like a statistic from the same people who said, "On average, men think about sex every three seconds." and while that may be pertain to most of the people on this forum, it certainly does not pertain to your average male.

Furthermore, by "consumers of internet porn" I can only assume that they are referring to free porn? Because how many 12 year olds do you know with access to a visa or mastercard without their parent's knowledge?

All that tells me is there are a whole pile of fucked up parents of 12-17 year olds who need to pull their heads out of their asses.

Maybe if these parents were home with their kids, keeping an eye on what they're surfing for, this might not be an issue. There's always a parent home at my house, 24/7...and our family computer is in the kitchen - my kids don't have computers in their bedrooms. If they're surfing somewhere I don't approve of, I know it.

and only now they found out? heheheh

not to mention most ppl under 16sh over the years got porn not from sites, but ftp's, etc. maybe that gets lumped in with web sites, who knows

well it would explain 85% of GFY posters

And how do you propose to do that?

Modern kids know computers 10x better than their parents who are working 8-5 jobs to make ends meet.

And porn is all over the net. You can find adult links on almost any site.

how hard is it for parents to keep kids off the internet? just unplug the damn pc when they're not being supervised or set up a password. it's not a god given right and necessity for small children to access the internet.

I think it's fair to say that a good number of the people on this very board grew up without the internet, yet we are all (well some of us anyway) technically savvy enough to be making a living from it, so it's not something that kids NEED to have in order to remain proficient and up to date with modern technology.

This bitch is crazy

"Force Pornographers to Pay the Costs of Child Protection The Internet Safety and Child Protection Trust Fund will not be deficit-financed or financed from taxes paid by the average, working American. Rather, the Trust Fund will be financed by a 25% excise tax on Internet pornography transactions."

parents don't have control over their kids surfing porn on the internet but they can help by setting passwords on their computer.

Amen, I've come across this in the past. Parents who find their children surfing inappropriate material on the internet are always ready to point fingers at those they would deem "responsible". Did anybody ever stop to wonder what precautions they were taking to prevent their children from accessing such materials? Not to mention the fact that if they find internet pornography so morally offensive, isn't it their duty as parents to instill the same values that they hold dear in to their children?

parents can't babysit 24/7. what irks me is nowadays you do a regular search on google and porn can come up with tame keywords being searched. just one click and the kids are exposed to porn, endless pop-ups and spyware.

See that's all it is about, it's not about children, it's about the government getting a chunk of porno profits.

I propose they do what I do when my kids are on the net, supervise them!

It doesn't take any computer skills to take a peek over their shoulder every few minutes and look at what they are doing or where they are surfing.

You can't superwise the kids 24/7. Most kids have their own personal computers in their own rooms. Internet should be a safe, friendly and foremost education place. Not a Harlem alley after midnight.

This is in the Porn Standard report linked off her web site at:

http://www.third-way.com/news/THE_PORN_STANDARD.pdf

"Parents are not the only ones who have their hands full coping with the
challenges posed by the rise of a vast and largely unregulated online world that mixes quick profits and sex without limits. Law enforcement is struggling to cope with this new world and to combat a rising wave of related criminal activity. Tragically, the exploitation of children by internet pornographers in search of quick profits extends beyond just the sale of their product to minors. Thousands of children today are abducted and abused in the process of producing online pornography. Indeed, because of its relatively lawless nature, the Internet has become highly attractive to a wide array of criminals who seek to prey on children, whether they are pedophiles soliciting children for sex or pornographers seeking to exploit children for commercial gain."


I think I'm gonna blow a gasket.

So, I'm guessing the first porn traffic spike between 11am and 2pm are from kids on their lunchbreak?

a democrat really said that? the sky is falling

I won't debate your in ability or inability to parent, but what do you propose as a solution or you just here to whine like a little bitch that there's a problem? What's the solution or insite do you offer?

For someone that supposedly makes the living peddling porn, you seem quite down on the whole industry, or maybe your just on your Wendy's break?

exactly
plus parents need to EDUCATE their children

my biggest concern isn't internet porn, it's Internet chatrooms...that's why there is a keylogger on my kids' computer too. I've also taken the time to educate my kids on what to do if they run across an inappropriate site (hey, it can happen when I'm surfing with them and typo a domain). I can lock up my computer, password every aspect, etc. but it still doesn't mean their friends who have computers will have their computers protected as such, so I have to educate my children. I let them know the danger of strangers. It's not rocket science, but it's not exactly easy to raise a child either, but it is my JOB to do it to the best of my ability.

"whether they are pedophiles soliciting children for sex or pornographers seeking to exploit children for commercial gain"

You can't deny that both of these exist, hell they are both on GFY alone, but it's still wrong to classify the entire industry as people who prey on children for profit. Fucked up shit but nothing new, nothing we havn't heard before...

giving a child unregulated access to a pc, ie in their own rooms, is the same as giving them a loaded gun. not only will they have unrestricted access to the internet but also the pedophiles who use myspace and other online gathering areas to target your children. if you cant monitor your childrens computer use, dont let them use the fucking computer.

then dont have a pc in the kids room. there's no surefire way to stop kids from accessing porn, but you can make it tough. kids dont get porn from google, etc anyways. i can search the net all day long and i dont see porn unless i want to.

heck, most 12-17 year olds prolly have a better sex life than their parents...

amen, when i say responsibility this is it. take notes

politicians are trying to lump porn producers as child abusers. the next war propoganda wont be on the next iraq, etc. it may very well be us.

What about 13-14 year olds? You propose to constantly superwise them too, like newborns?

Computers and Internet has integrted into modern society, and it somehow should be regulated - and not by the means of abstinence/supervision.

Yes, i make my living from porn, but i'm fucking petrified by the stuff that you can possibly find online. If I was a parent, i'd be freaking out about the idea of my kids going online.

Those would be Draconian rules. Modern world kids and computers are inseparable. Games, music, education etc. etc.


Thats funny, cause I can not. I try to search google for some legit info and always get some porn listings or ads.

like regulations will stop kids from getting access to porn? anyone who thinks that isn't in touch with reality...

Those would be Draconian rules. Modern world kids and computers are inseparable. Games, music, education etc. etc.

they cant play games in the living room? they can't do their homework in the living room? they can't listen to music on their ipod?

i know plenty of parents who won't put a pc in their kids room and it seems to work fine.

Instead of messing with the producers of porn, how about they pressure the search engines like Google to NOT accept ads from pornographers? Since porn IS legal for adults to view, the crackdown should not be on the adult websites, but on the search engines that bring them up!

Maybe they should only show the porn results after the search engine does an Age Verification check?

fuck that. how about they presure microsoft into implementing filters into their operating systems