Originally Posted by kane

The internet is a paid for service. A person has to buy a device and then pay for internet access in order to then access it. Anyone smart enough to get on the internet knows there is porn, nudity, gore, hate speech, and all kinds of other things you don't want your kids near. If you buy them a device (or allow them access to one) and allow them access to the internet, you need to take responsibility for them.

I believe all browsers now have parental controls built in. Saying it is too costly to buy filtering software is a cop out. If you don't think the built-in stuff in the browsers will be enough, most internet filtering software cost between $25 and $50 or about the same as one month of internet access.

Even if the US passed a law requiring all sites to have some kind of age verification it would only affect those owned by people in the US. The last I read only about 40% of the sites out there (might be different for adult) are owned by US companies/people. This would leave people with tons and tons of free porn out there including most, if not all, of the big tube sites.

Our lawmakers shouldn't be fighting to stop free porn from existing, it should, instead, put their efforts into educating parents on how to keep their kids away from it.