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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...
Attention... all grammer nazi"s! Is they're anything; wrong with: my post,
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.
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
Was I the only one surprised at how low 37% seems?
Lower still when you consider your mom accounts for half of that (or two-thirds by mass...)
Bow-ties are cool.
FOR PORN!
Ooops, sorry..
-- Senior Software Engineer, Attorney appearance services, locallawyerapp.com.
Does this count as a "porn site"?
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
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
"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.
Well, ever since I learned google images has a "find similar images" feature, I have been using it as a sort of cloud-porn-computing system. And google videos is nice too... google is my GOTO porn site these days.
"Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of face the heart is made glad." [Ecclesiastes 7:3]
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.
Awesome, that means we only have 2/3rds left to go!
There is a war going on for your mind.
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?
I have found that Google image search often omits the "find similar images" button for images containing nudity.
Michael Reed, freelance tech writer.