(July 23, 2013 at 7:46 am)fr0d0 Wrote: Untrue...and how many kids are actually members of online cultures? Yes, if you go to reddit, you can find a load of porn. Same with 4chan, etc. The point is, it's never on the homepages of those sites, and often (especially with reddit) you have a warning message before you can even see it.
The online culture currently is littered with porn. Look at yourself in chat... you post images for fun. Kids have no controls for that crap and it becomes normal to them.
The open availability of the stuff is more far reaching. It's the leap anyone can easily make to instant depravity.
My point was, if you give a kid access to the Internet, the only real way they are going to find porn is by wanting to go see it. You can't just do a regular Google search and get porn as a result; it doesn't happen any more.
Another problem with this bill is the implementation. Presumably, they are just going to have a massive blacklist of known porn sites. Well, the problem is, most images on reddit / 4chan are not hosted on porn sites...they are hosted on regular image hosting sites like imgur.com or photobucket.com. Are those sites going to have to be blocked too?
Why can't parents be trusted to take the initiative and install parental control software? Why does the nanny state have to take this into their own hands, when it's clearly going to be badly implemented?
