A good majority of the spam, of the bulk emailed unsolicited porn, of those promoting Lolitas, underage kids, etc., in my experience seem to originate outside of the USA. Not saying that ALL does, but a majority does.

So how is US legislation going to stop this?

As for sites using things like the whitehouse.com site to target children, I propose that the owners of that site did not use that domain
name to try to snare children as their motivation for registering the domain. I can't see whitehouse.com as a site that someone targeting children would register because it targets children. They did it for the type in value to get adults to their website. I am certainly not suggesting that children weren't caught by that and ended up on a porn site, but the children weren't "targeted" by porn companies anymore than children were targeted by porn for looking at daddy's porn collection they found in the closet when they went looking for a toy they lost. Sure they got exposed to porn, sure they weren't meant to see it, sure there were cursory attempts to hide it from them, but they still stumbled upon it. they weren't targeted. That is my primary point.

What's the benefit of "targeting" children with porn sites? They have no credit cards, they buy no products, they are far from a potential customer pool. So what do we accomplish by targeting children? Corrupting them?
Making them horny? Parents drink at home, beat their wives, lie, cheat, steal, abuse their kids, and they do all this without porn (but I think it would probably be blamed on porn too, and sometimes I am sure it is), so why is porn corrupting them? Making kids horny? They already are!

I am sorry, but porn companies do not target children. Sure there are those who try to solicit children for sex.. But the vast majority of these people have nothing to do with the porn industry. And these people, using porn images to get their targets horny enough to meet them, has absolutely nothing to do with the porn industry targeting children.

Sure content needs to be protected, sure we need to self regulate, sure we need to rate our content, but come on! I am sick of this all being put on the backs of kids! You say something enough and it becomes true. You repeat somethin often enough and it's the truth. You tell people porn targets children enough, it becomes fact.

Where is the supporting data that says US porn producers are targeting children? I say US porn producers because they are the only ones directly subject to US legislation.

It is time for legislators to start putting some of the burden on the parents of these kids. How about legislation that makes it a crime in a household where internet is accessible if you don't have child protection or child monitoring software on your home computers? No, it's easier to paint porn producers as degenerates, as scum, as evil porn peddling child molesting, child targeting monsters, than it is to tell parents they need to look to themselves to share part of the burden of protecting their children!

After all, if they were my children, I would do everything i could to protect them.