[FYI] Conference to target kids' access to Net porn

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

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Conference to target kids' access to Net porn  

Keeping children away from adult content on the Web is tough now, but 
experts already are warning about when the pornography industry and 
technology will really hit hyper-speed, making the job even tougher.  

The current discussion about how to prevent children from browsing or 
downloading sexually explicit images or videos merely taps the 
surface, says Herb Lin, a senior scientist at the National Research 
Council -- part of the National Academy of Sciences -- and project 
leader of a three-day conference that begins today in Redwood City: 
``Tools and Strategies for Protecting Children From Pornography.''  

[...]  

Lin poses an interesting scenario: What if pornography techies decide 
to create a national, no-fee Web site?

``Right now, the so-called adult online industry is in it for the 
money,'' Lin said in a recent interview. ``But what happens when a 
different community starts exchanging pornography on the Net and no 
money changes hands at all, just like Napster?''  

No one is doing that yet, Lin cautions, ``but the technology exists 
and we should be thinking about things like that now.''  

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