Library Lawsuit

[Filtering Facts]

Karen Hyman wrote:
>Thank you, Ann. I used to do a little slide demo of how hard it was to get
>porn to just "pop out at you" on the Net. I stopped doing it because it
>was no longer accurate for the reason Ann describes as well as the
>increasingly aggressive marketing/technical practices of porn sites. Even
>when sites don't exactly pop up, they aren't nearly as difficult to
>stumble upon (especially if you're a kid who doesn't pick up on a clever
>play on words) or to arrive in the middle of through a search engine.
>

Good point.  When the Supreme Court ruled a year ago, they found that net
porn was not "pervasive".  You have to wonder if they may change their minds
if this situation continues.  Almost every habitual net surfer I know has a
story about some term they entered into a search engine that brought up a
site summary that would make a sailor blush.  My mother was looking for a
children's play for her church, and the word "play" was the culprit.
"Toys", "girls", and "watersports" will almost always get you porn.

There's also the "typo URLs", such as the infamous www.whitehouse.com.  I
just found out about two more: www.alta-vista.com and www.espm.com are both
porn sites.

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