Internet Porn hearings live on CNN Pipeline

[Lee]

- Repeat, no substitute for parental involvment

Its looking like this is going to be the major issue for these hearings.

Its about time too.

Watching it all now

Regards,

Lee

[jIgG]

Internet Education group guy said the same thing, no substitute for parental involvment.

Doesn't use V-Chip, instead decides what his kids can and will see and controls access to the TV

[Lee]

FYI, if anyone wants to see the stream, head on over to http://www.cnnpipeline.com

It costs $0.99 for 24 hours access to the stream and it is full of some really valid points.

Regards,

Lee

[jIgG]

Paul Cambria:

- father of 5 children, 2-16 yrs old, all girls.
- lawful adult expression is excepted in America. AVN estimates revenue 12 billion. 2.5 billion Internet.
- 40% hotels offer adult channels. Nielsen Net/Rating 34 million Americans visited porn sites.
- Adult sites have 60 million unique users daily more than news sites.
- Industry willing to demonstrate is interested in fashioning effective solutions for concerns
- Cambria pro-Self ratings for parents to filter sites, so no censoring of flow of information.
- Adult industry anti-child porn. Supports anti-child porn groups. Offering paying rewards for getting rid of child-porn
- Adult verifying performers age long before it was law
- No need to burden internet speech with laws, who were struck
- .kids domain far more beneficial more than .xxx domain
- Adult biz wants solutions, help filtering.

[Lee]

Interesting comment by the chairman..

"Employ 'adult ratings' on your sites or we'll mandate it for you"

Looks like we may be heading towards ratings for porn sites much like with movies, cd's and video games.

Regards,

Lee

[jIgG]

he shot that warning quite angrily.
that guy has issues

[jIgG]

70% of parents are concerned about porn, but 15% use v-chip and filters.
70% say no to gov't involvment.

[jIgG]

ok that wasn't so bad. Or am I the only one who thinks that?
I think when that guy said 75% of porn is outside the US, pretty much shot anyone's hope of putting draconian laws in place to ban porn