F**k the K**s! (rant)

[nycfreak]

Originally Posted by Cleo

The woman who lives across the street from me, she knows that I sell porn, told me that she is afraid that her teenage son might be looking at online porn. So I explained that she should put blocking software on her son's computer. She said that she didn't want the hassle and expense of buying and installing software.

Is the software that expensive? Parents need to take responsiblity for themselves and stop blaming.

[Toby]

Originally Posted by nycfreak

Is the software that expensive? Parents need to take responsiblity for themselves and stop blaming.

The software is cheap, $25 to $40, but most teenagers are smart enough to disable it anyway.

I have a client with two teenage sons. Accessing porn online isn't an issue. What is a major problem is all the nasty spyware and virii that they manage install while looking for hacked game programs and free music.

Teenagers are going to find a way to look at porn. In my teenage days it was find Dad's stash of magazines. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[xxxjay]

Originally Posted by Toby

Teenagers are going to find a way to look at porn. In my teenage days it was find Dad's stash of magazines. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Ain't that the truth...I did the same thing.

[lassiter]

Originally Posted by Toby

The software is cheap, $25 to $40, but most teenagers are smart enough to disable it anyway.

Which is why "protecting the kids" is such bull manure. Yes, a filter to keep little 8-year-old Sally from seeing reality porn when she's looking up information on fairy tales is a great thing and should be used and encouraged. But any good Republican businessman is gonna tell you that you can't "protect" someone from a commodity that they are deliberately seeking (like 16-year-olds looking for nekkid pictures). That's a whole different thing, and the fact that the government and the fundamentalist moralists treat them as exactly the same "problem" is either stupidity or being deliberately deceptive.