Furthermore, most of the online services have had parental controls for a long time, before this mass hysteria was created by the mainstream media. Prodigy and America Online have had controls that let you keep kids out of certain chat areas, or Usenet newsgroups, or preventing downloading of files, for years. People must stop blaming everyone else for their lack of parenting skills. To be frank, it is NOT that easy for kids to get ahold of pornographic material online. You must SEEK it out.
Human nature is what it is.
But blaming a network of some 40 million people and trying to take away their right to express themselves is no solution to this natural curiosity. There are very few kids online at the present time. China has just implemented a policy that all Internet users must register with the police and sign an agreement promising not to harm the country, transmit pornography, or do anything illegal. A German parliamentary commission recently called for international Internet controls against material harmful to children. They even were considering whether online providers like CompuServe can be held responsible for pornography or neo-Nazi propaganda obtained through their services.