The Web isn't teeming with Sex: only 1% of it is according to study

[mandy]

A confidential analysis of Internet search queries and a random sample of Web pages taken from Google and Micrsoft's giant Internet indexes showed that only about 1 percent of all Web pages contain sexually explicit material.

The ACLU said the analysis, by Philip B. Stark, a professor of statistics at the University of California-Berkeley, did not appear to substantially help the Justice Department in its effort to prove that criminal penalties are necessary to protect minors from exposure to sexually explicit information on the Internet.

The Justice Department had commissioned the study as part of an effort to resurrect the Children's Online Protection Act, which was signed by President Clinton in 1998, but was immediately challenged by the ACLU...

full article (free registration required): http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercuryne...07733.html

[BellisimaJ.]

I have Norton Internet Security installed on my son's computer, and he is listed as under 13 in the user files, thus, it does not allow him to go to sites that may have explicit content, etc.

However, a couple of weeks ago I was looking for a particular font, went to a free font site that I had been to before, and started browsing. They had fonts listed under the category of "sexy", and being curious, I wanted to know what a "sexy" font looked like. :-[

Very explicit stuff. :blinkie:

My point is that I doubt that they will ever be able to control what kids see on the net beyond a certain point. It has to be something that parents take responsibility for, not just the government.

TY, Mandy!

Edited to add:

I would far rather my son view soft porn type stuff than violence; there is very little gov't. regulation of that on the  net!