You're probably feeling safer today than you were a few days ago, and you know why? It's
Protection from Porn week, direct from the White House. Spurred on from groups such as
Morality in Media (who issued
a jubilant press release to mark their achievement) you can finally feel safe now that you've gotten out from under pornography's thumb. (note: These links couldn't be any safer for work)
posted by mathowie
on Oct 30, 2003 -
34 comments
Porn on the net is not a problem. Readers chime in on
an opinion column with opinions of their own. My favorites "All one has to do if you don't want to read such garbage is to delete it when you first sign onto the Internet" (this guy obviously has no clue how the web works) and "Is there software I can buy to block out you?" In this article, Porn site supporters and detractors both seem to agree that users have to go out of their way to see pornographic content on the web. You
have to click on the link to see porn. Funny how the writer of the original article couldn't figure that out. Is porn really that much of a problem on the web, or are some people just too embarrased to admit that due to some curiosity, they
wanted to follow the links?
posted by mathowie
on Jun 24, 2000 -
11 comments
Public embarrasment as a tool to stop child pornography trading.
The Wall of Shame highlights
Gnutella users searching and downloading kiddie porn, carrying this disclaimer: "
I'm all for freedom of data sharing but not when it comes to exploiting children. A secret gnutella server has bogus image files with very obvious names. If you search and download thesefiles from the server your IP, time of D/L and DNS will be logged.
You have been warned!"
posted by mathowie
on May 5, 2000 -
17 comments
Oh my, talk about your imperfect applications of technology. I'm searching for an image of one of those "Hello my name is..." badges for a little joke, so I tried out
Lycos' image search engine. After about five pages into the search for images containing "hello", a porn image would pop up on almost every search page. "Hello" is a generic term, so there's pictures of babies and kids right next to some gnarly stuff. Here's
an example of a kid and a hello kitty image juxtaposed between some interesting images.
Here's another: doll, doll, people screwing each other's brains out, hello kitty mouse....
posted by mathowie
on Mar 6, 2000 -
4 comments
I suppose it was only a matter of time until someone built the
Internet Adult Film Database. It's actually pretty funny, you can search by title (sadly, they didn't have an entry for 'Jurassic Pork') or you can search for any specific person. The db will even tell you how many tatoos and piercings each performer has. Wacky stuff.
posted by mathowie
on Oct 7, 1999 -
0 comments
