He said the first house he'll be cleaning is his own, where nearly a fifth of everyone who visits his sites are under 18. His goal is to lower that percentage to single digits in six months, then to 4 percent after a year. But there are plenty others out there to target, Ashe said. E-mail addresses of children and adults are lifted from newsgroup postings or picked up from cookies. The lists are bought, then used to solicit for extremely violent and illegal forms of porn, Ashe said.
Theft is also a huge problem.
But instead of drawing lines on a map as cities do, the Internet would rely on domain names like .kids and .xxx, or set aside a block of unused IP addresses that new sites would be assigned according to content. Donna Rice Hughes feels the adult industry is about to take a severe hit because of George W. Bush's choice to fill the Attorney General's position. She believes that is about to change because John Ashcroft will enforce the laws that have been ignored for the past eight years. Flying Crocxxxx, one of the country's largest adult websites, has laid off 63 employees at its headquarters here and is looking for a buyer after the founders said they did not want to fight possible battles with the FTC and President Bush over Internet pornography. There could very well be a Larry Flynt out there who champions the industry.