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'Porn King' Says Google Should Block Porn Access

Posted by Zonk on from the i-guess-he's-thinking-of-the-children dept.

mikesd81 writes "The Register has a story saying that one of the world's biggest porn producers wants Google and other search sites to put up barriers between kids and adult entertainment. 'Steven Hirsch, the co-chairman and co-founder of Vivid Entertainment, is to deliver this message on Saturday in New Haven, Connecticut as he addresses an army of Yale University MBA candidates. "Responsible companies in the adult industry such as ours have done a great deal to deter minors from accessing adult material," Hirsch proclaims from inside a Vivid press release. "None of the search engines and portals, but particularly Yahoo and Google, has taken any significant steps in this direction.'"

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  1. Re:What about me? by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    On a more serious note, it's not Google's job (nor should it ever) to filter it's results. This idea is horrible - does this guy even understand how the Internet and search engines work???
    That might be so if Google where just a search engine, returning cold results based on hard inputs. But that's not what Google is. Google is not some cold search utility, Google is a content provider that makes money on returning the kind of results their customers are looking for, just like any other Web content provider.
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  2. Re:Oh the Humanity! by Man+On+Pink+Corner · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm sorry; I missed the part of your post where you explained exactly what harm those magazines are doing to your fifth grader. Your post begs so many questions that it ought to be written on a cardboard sign.

    From what I can tell, if you want your fifth-grader to grow up without getting dangerously-wrong ideas about human sexuality, all you have to do is keep him or her away from churches.