Comments on: Study: Children Bombarded With Online Porn

66 Percent Of Children Who Have Seen Internet Porn Images Said It Was Unsolicited

[gaye5]

I would have to agree and disagree with some of you here. I agree that many kids look for it and then say it was an accident, but I also know that it can just come up when looking for something, I have had it happen to me twice and I couldn't get rid of the darned thing, I actually had to turn my computer off and start again, they weren't at all pleasant and from having seen this I can understand that if a child saw what I saw that he would be disturbed, it was not the normal sort of ***.

Also, my husband found at school that even if the children were careful about what they put into the computer when looking up subjects for school projects, that an innocent looking subject which was in reference to what they wanted could also produce porn...it is done deliberately for the reason of getting at kids or weak people, the ones who want to see porn go straight to the subject...
I have actually written to a vitamin company complaining that they had porn on their site, to be told that they didn't know what I was talking about...it had just popped up...hmmmm and I tried twice thinking that I had pushed the wrong keys the first time...

[mdc76082]

This is a parental issue, not a city, state or federal issue. If you don't want your kids exposed to it, then set the parental controls. It's simple, it's easy and it works. You can filter out anything now a days, even from their email accounts. the resources are there, the parents have to use them. The only time it doesn't, is when the parent gives them the password and the kids are exposed to all sorts of filth. I believe most parents don't set parental controls because they want to be "COOL PARENTS". This is where the parents egos jeapordize the childs well being. Parents should remember...YOU ARE IN CONTROL.

[agnim]

"Study: Children Bombarded With Online Porn"

The children can't even use the Net as medium for school work without being deliberately distracted by unnecessary adult stuff.

There is absolutely no good reason to allow porn to minds that are yet too young manage well the unnecessary stimulation from the porn that are deviously plastered across the Net.

Why should we be surprised; America is filled with a lot of ignorant, irresponsible, deviant, perverted and low-life adults and lawmakers with little or no wisdom, and who feel no obligation to protect younger minds/bodies.

Matter of fact, many of these same deviant and perverted low-life adults at all levels of the society deliberately seek to exploit the young.

[tuckerndfw]

Seanv,

We agree.

It has been a life long puzzle as to why people consider a watching people engage in what are for the most part healthy, normal activities to be a crime, yet consider a watching a criminal act to be acceptable or normal.

Americans appear to be one of the most sexually deviant societies on the planet based on our method of censorship. And, it's no wonder the US has more sexual crimes & deviants than any other nation or society.

[seanv137]

Maybe they can watch people being blown to pieces on some commercial tv station while their parents are busy screening their computers for harmful images of naked people.

Moralists' hypocrisy is tiresome to the extreme.

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you know it has always amazed me how in our culture it's so ok to watch violence, gore, people getting maimed, butchered, and tortured on tv...but show two people having mutual pleasure and expressing love in their natural nakedness and they flip their wigs, go to code red and call in the national guard.

this country really is backwards.

[lavampire]

Prior to 1995, when the first browser appeared, men and woman in civilized societies learned by reading books and listening to lectures in a classroom setting. Moreover, Sesame Street and Mister Rogers too taught many of us men and woman who are now running the country a thing or two about life and about our A,B,Cs. So please tell me why on earth a child of less than 18 years of age needs the Internet to learn and to develop intellectual skills.
Parents of America, pull the plug on the Internet and head back to the libraries of America. You do not need a computer image or the Internet to enlighten the mind. From what I know, at least Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Issac Newton, or even Albert Einstein or Madame Currie never never required of it, and they surely accomplished much in life.

[tuckerndfw]

If parents do not want their little darlings to see images of naked humans doing what dogs do every day in public, then DO NOT allow them to use the I'net without personal, direct supervision.

Which includes a preview of all images before the little darling might be exposed to such things.

Maybe they can watch people being blown to pieces on some commercial tv station while their parents are busy screening their computers for harmful images of naked people.

Moralists' hypocrisy is tiresome to the extreme.

[tuckerndfw]

CharlesDJohn,

to go along with your story, there was a recent story about some kid whose computer had become infected by a virus that used his computer as a proxie to send "porn" to others via e-mail.

And, the prosecutor's office was too incompetent to determine it was a virus, so they charged the kid with distributing porn.

Witch hunts rarely result in good laws.

"Porn laws" should all be repealed and anyone who advocates passing "porn laws" is unqualified to hold office.

If mommy & daddy can't control their little darlings, taxpayers have no obligation to do so.

[cantshutup]

and you don't have to use internet explorer which sucks anyway, use firefox or mozilla!

[cantshutup]

Now it is true that you won't get porn unless you've looked for it at some point, and then you get the pop ups...However, even with a good filter some smut will still pop up even without searching for it...For example, your kids are googling images of hello kitty and even though you've got strict filtering, some stuff gets through and the kids are gonna see some "kitty" alright...you have to be deligent, keep an eye on what they're doing instead of using the computer as a babysitter as some parents do with the tv...control what goes on in your own house or the government is gonna do it for you!