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Over a Third of the Internet Is Pornographic
Th'Inquisitor writes "Pornography makes up 37% of the total number of web pages online, according to a new study published by Optenet, a SaaS provider. According to the report, which looked at a representative sample of around four million extracted URLs, adult content on the Internet increased by 17% in the first quarter of 2010, as compared to the same period in 2009."
Thats more porn then you can shake a fist at...
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FTFA... Web sites that contain violence have grown by 10.8 per cent, terrorism content by 8.5 per cent, and illegal drugs purchase by 6.8 per cent, and are continuing to grow, according to to the study, although it failed to define what it means by these terms.
So a gaming site mentioning GTA4 could be counted as violence, drugs & porn.
Rotta reckons, "There is a growing trend for online role-playing games to encourage negative behaviour, by rewarding violent and brutal activities within the online games."
Yes because Crocheting & Knitting RPGs would sell so well.
Internet shopping pages have increased by nine per cent this year, but Rotta managed not to find this worrying. What might kids be buying? Has she thought of that?
She finds shopping sites worrying? Dont most of them still require a credit card for payment?
according to a new study published by Optenet, a SaaS provider which delivers "on-premise" security.
So they will sell you software to protect you from teh interwebs?
Now I just need software to protect me from bullshit slashvertisments posing as articles.
I am a free slashdotter. I will not be modded, blogged, DRM'd, patented, podcasted or RFID'd. My life is my own.
I clearly need to spend more time surfing the web.
They feared that it could be used to suppress protest or support unpopular rule.
Applying Rule 34 in reverse, one could say that all of the internet is pornographic. I mean, there's got to be someone who gets off reading papers on arXiv, right?
it's 100% if you count the fans ;-)
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...the other two thirds are lying.
That's shocking!
The Internet is for porn.
A lot of sites are nothing more than naked bodies. I'd estimate only about ~20% are actual porn (sex).
I wish people would stop confusing the two, because they are not the same.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
I doubt this is true honestly. I wonder how this figure was come to. Does a one page web page count as one count, right next to expansive wikipedia? That would be misleading.
"Men willingly believe what they wish." - Julius Caesar
Always frustrating to see them littering all over the place.
Glad for the RPG mention though. Good to know I'm part of what's corrupting America.
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Was I the only one surprised at how low 37% seems?
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Google now processes hundreds of thousands of Gigabytes of pornography per day. Each second, Google processes more porn than you have on your flash drive, iPhone, and desktop combined.
"Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of face the heart is made glad." [Ecclesiastes 7:3]
FOR PORN!
Ooops, sorry..
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Does this count as a "porn site"?
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Web sites that contain violence have grown by 10.8 per cent, terrorism content by 8.5 per cent,
Let me guess, they just classified every web-page containing Arabic characters to be "terrorism content", didn't they?
Dr Cox: I'm fairly sure that if they took all the porn off the Internet, there'd only be one website left, and it would be called bring-back-the-porn.com
And what if the random trivia is true? What if half the internet is for adults? Aren't half the people in the world adults? Why should they not have a representative portion of the internet? So we have to sanitize the world for the developmentally challenged that have never seen a real vagina or penis.
And then, what is pornographic? If I write a story with a plot and gratuitous sex scene is that pornographic? We want definitions.
This is just a useless piece of fluff intended to make people who aren't getting laid mess in their pants. Oh, think of the kids. Oh, Oh, the kids. We have to protect, the Oh, kids.
We already know that 99.99999% of the interent has no useful content. Yahoo is evidently becoming the ultimate porn site by advertising it is the place of entertainment news. Pretty soon the only safe place to be will be /. Even XKCD can't be trusted. Fuck.
"She's a scientist and a lesbian. She's not going to let it slide." Orphan Black
A better title for slashdot readers.. 63% of the internet is useless
I'm both surprised and feeling more hope for humanity.
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News for nerds. Stuff that matters.
Ohh and how it matters.
"Ana Luisa Rotta, director of child protection projects at Optenet"
So they have a commercial interest in this topic and to make things even worse, they claim to be "child protection"... those are the worst. I don't trust this study or them at all.
According to the report, which probably looked at a well chosen sample of around four million extracted URLs, adult content on the Internet increased by 17% in the first quarter of 2010, as compared to the same period in 2009."
When someone tries to sell you software to protect you from the evil porn that you might accidentally see on the internet, I'm not sure I'm gonna believe their claims of how much porn there is.
How much of that is malware disguised as porn?
I read the internet for the articles.
For "Web sites that contain violence have grown by 10.8 per cent, terrorism content by 8.5 per cent, and illegal drugs purchase by 6.8 per cent".
Does that mean all web sites are converting to terrorist web pages selling porn and drugs?
Was I the only one
Yep. You are all alone in your surprise, because you are that unique.
I might even go so far as to say that brilliant, since only someone of your supreme intellect and education could produce estimates on this topic with greater accuracy than this study, and with resultant numbers that are staggeringly different.
You truly are a rare specimen adrift in an ocean of conformist mediocrity. My hat is off to you, sir.
*Only* 37%?
James Joyce defined pornographic art as art created with the intention of inspiring desire to possess the object. By this definition, advertising art is pornographic, and there's no shortage of that on the web! Perhaps a third of the content on the web isn't pornographic.
Loose lips lose spit.
This is dire news indeed. I wish the article has discussed possible solutions to the lack of porn found on the internet
Awesome, that means we only have 2/3rds left to go!
There is a war going on for your mind.
They say this as if it were a bad thing; /me continues cataloging the internet.....
The interesting question, if you ask me, is how much traffic is devoted to porn. This is the result of a survey of four million URLs, but I could set up thousands of sites about pomegranates if I wanted, and it wouldn't have much to do with interest in pomegranates. (Don't ask why pomegranates. I just thought a pomegranate sounded good right now. Too much darn work though.) I suppose in large volume the quantity correlates with the size of the industry, but that still doesn't take into account the number of sites required to meet the needs of the people. Other people, that is, am I right?
and I quote :
"The internet is for porn"
37%? What does that tell you about the average marriage?
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The internet is for porn. Avenue Q told me so.
At first I thought, "no way", but then I considered that they were saying web pages, not web domains. No doubt, any single porn website might have thousands of individual pages, whereas most websites only have a few dozen. So yeah, I could see 37%.
"...adult content on the Internet increased by 17% in the first quarter of 2010, as compared to the same period in 2009." can be explained by the global recession and people looking to keep paying the bills. It will drop off once the recession is over.
"The laws of science be a harsh mistress." --Bender
Pornography makes up 37 per cent of the total number of Web pages online
According to the report, which looked at a representative sample of around four million extracted URLs ...
So they used sheer number of URLs to make up shit about the overall composition of content on the internet?
Retarded.
Besides URLs being a poor indicator of amount/accessibility of content, they didn't even draw any conclusions.
If it turned out that 1% of sites were porn, or that 99% of sites were porn, there would have been no difference in the article.
It's just "Yep, porn exists. Maybe you should think about security! *WINK WINK*" -security provider
Has anyone asked Netcraft if 2010 will be the year of the porn desktop?
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MUCH of this porn is being made by pretty good looking women with utterly no self respect and clearly no standards insofar as that goes.
My question is then: why don't I *ever* sit next to them on the plane/bus/park bench?
-Styopa
That little?
By who's definition?
And I missed it... *sigh*
This statistic really underlines the need for better filtering software. If 1/3 of the internet is porn, that is fully 2/3 of most people's time that is wasted on news, technology, sports statistics and the like. We really need a reliable filtering algorithm that will allow us to filter out that useless 2/3rds.
Therefore, only 2/3rds of the internet is a compleat waste of time.
Let's see you filter that Senator Conroy.
We're going to need a bigger hard drive.
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..63% of the interweb is going to waste.
World of Warcraft style?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWEjvCRPrCo
or
Sesame Street style?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNARJPNz2CA&feature=related
L'esperienza de questa dolce vita (The experience of this sweet life) - Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
It's a good thing Steve Jobs and his minions are looking out for us and telling us porn is bad and blocking it. But if adult content increased 17% in the first quarter, doesn't that mean Jobs is wrong? Maybe he needs to get a grip.
"...adult content on the Internet increased by 17% in the first quarter of 2010"
Wow, that's a lot of adults using the Internet!
What is a representative sample of URLs? Due to dynamic content, the internet has an infinite number of URLs so surely the percentages you come up with are all about the methods you use to obtain the URLs. If you include enough precision in decimal degree of latitude and longitude, there's probably more of the internet just in google maps than in porn.
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"I don't care about the Constitution!" --Bill O'Reilly, November 17, 2009
is pornographic?
That's it? Really?
~X~
Yeah but as an earlier slashdot article pointed out, Donald Knuth was wrong!
'When Paul Hales started writing about IT, DOS was state of the art, Microsoft had competition, a laptop was called a luggable and Amstrad was yet to source a dodgy hard disk. "In those days," ...'
people had to wank watching ASCII (warning explicit imagery - for those of you still running DOS).
Seems to me there is a methodology issue. (Well more than one actually but this one is glaring.)
Where did they get the URLs?
The research could be measuring effectiveness of link-publication and advertising placement programs more than actual amount of content.
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I'm betting a good 50% of what they "Found" is people setting up pages of links so they can get people to land there, click through and get a few cents, and/or get people to hopefully sign up through their "link" to make a few bucks.
People spam everywhere they can with that stuff thinking they will make millions :)
Wow.
Based upon my spam emails received, I would have bet on 2/3.
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I can't believe nobody's posted this yet...
The Internet is for PORN!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-TA57L0kuc&feature=related
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Geek porn.
Yeah, I can see how that would be 37% of the Interweb pages. At a minimum.
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all that porn online ... it's about time someone decided to start a search engine just for porn videos.
have you guys seen spankwall.com? My friends created it. check it out.
It's something like 69% by bandwidth. (A statistic I made up just now, as is my right as a traditionally recognized slashdot statistific artist.)
The reason why your Internet seems more populated by porn than this survey is that the Internet is indexed. That the Google search "ameture handcuff oral" returns exactly 0 hits from nasa.gov, ieee.org or acm.org isn't Google's fault, nor NASA's, nor IEEE's nor the ACM's. Well, it is, but only tangentally.
/now would someone please fix the messed up comment submission form in slashcode for the traditional format? This tiny box is really lame.
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They ballpark the fraction as 1/3, but they give the figure 37%. I'm suspicious, what if the proportion of pornographic content on the web is actually 1/e of the total content?
adult content on the Internet increased by 17% in the first quarter of 2010
Who among you thought it would be a good idea to put his personal collection online?
Sorry I'm late to this thread. I was busy. Or maybe I saw this thread, was busy, then was late to reply. I can't remember which.
Gasp*
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Internet is for porn ! http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5430343841227974645# :-)
We... we've got to make more porn! Right now, there's a 2/3 chance I won't see porn when surfing! This is CRITICAL!
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This is the first time I've ever wanted to propose a new tag... "stillnotenough"
The spitting is weird and I don't care.
The choking can be fun.
But who the hell gets off on crush porn? The first crush vid I saw was made by a friend of mine and the animals being crushed were worms. This was something new on the scene and the girl involved just thought it was a little gross and messy.
That was over a decade ago. Since then, things have "progressed". Now, you don't have to look far to find people making erotic videos featuring women stomping kittens to death. Or slowly stepping on them so that they suffer and struggle for a while before their skull pops.
I never thought it would happen, but my personal limits have been greatly surpassed in recent years.
Who gets off on this crap? Seriously, I'd like to know so that I can avoid those people.
99% of the Lolcat photos you've ever viewed were 100% naked!
Only a 3rd? I would have thought more. I guess the recession is hurting all industries.
Hmmm... Porn should unify their efforts, consolidate, and use de-duplication technology to save on their run rate. :\
Considering that there is a LOT of redirects with porn websites, I don't think counting URLs alone is accurate.