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Internet Only 1% Porn

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the and-ninety-three-percent-spam dept.

Eli Gottlieb writes "In what surely comes as a complete and utter surprise to everyone here, a new calculation shows that only one percent of web pages contain pornography. While the calculations were performed using data forced from Google's and Microsoft's search indices by the government, they will help the American Civil Liberties Union to keep enforcement of the Children's Online Protection Act of 1998 banned. A loss for business privacy has become a victory for free speech, even though netizens lose a beloved old proverb."

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  1. I suspect by WormholeFiend · · Score: 5, Funny

    that everyone's hard drive pron content percentage is much higher, however.

    1. Re:I suspect by Salvance · · Score: 5, Funny

      Hmmm .... a few years ago the journal Nature found that 2% of the internet was porn. This would explain why it now takes me twice as long to find what I'm looking for.

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    2. Re:I suspect by grazzy · · Score: 5, Funny

      We must take this threat to internet porn seriously and ACT before it's to late. According to these statistics internet porn will be down to 0% in just a couple of years. Save the porn before it goes extinct!

    3. Re:I suspect by mattwarden · · Score: 5, Funny

      I suspect that the porn content of the Net is highly underrated. Having done such surveys in my life for businesses

      I want your job.

  2. oh no! by rayde · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dang! Now what am I gonna do with my new Dell?

  3. 99-1 law by cucucu · · Score: 5, Funny

    99% of the people spend their time in 1% of the web

  4. The Internet is... by consumer_whore · · Score: 5, Funny

    99% useless

  5. 1% pornography, 93% "art" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, you see it's like this -- the internet contains only 1% "pornography"; but of the remaining 99%, 93% consists of "artistic nudity" and "adult performance art". :-)

  6. Doing my part... by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...to skew the odds back where they belong. --------> (_Y_)

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  7. A few calculations by el_womble · · Score: 5, Funny

    My maths isn't great, but I did a few simple calculations and that is still a metric fuckload of porn.

    Feel free to convert it into imperial. I think rods would be an appropriate measure.

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  8. ONLY 1% Porn? by gambler_mtu · · Score: 5, Funny

    Given the size of the Internet, I find that rather sad. Too many people's lives are damaged/ruined by porn for even 1% to be acceptable. It would be better for society if that number were 0, we'd have a lot less child predators and rapists on the streets. I'm not saying that people shouldn't have the right to debase themselves...I just think it is sad that it is made so easy by the internet.

    1. Re:ONLY 1% Porn? by StoatBringer · · Score: 5, Funny

      If it cheers you up, I find this thread difficult to masturbate to.

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  9. Re:1% by number of pages, 99% by bandwidth consume by MyOtherUIDis3digits · · Score: 5, Funny

    AKA "1% by number of pages, 99% by disk space on my computer"

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  10. Re:1% by number of pages, 99% by bandwidth consume by MyOtherUIDis3digits · · Score: 5, Funny

    WTF?!? I know I selected "post anonymously"! Umm, I mean, hey! Someone hijacked my /. account!

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