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Googling s*x : Comments

By Abigail Bray, published 24/8/2009

The (im)possibility of censoring online child s*xual abuse material.

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'Welcome to the nastiest adult site on the net … Passed Out Pussy! We feature thousand of the most extreme teen porn movies ever taped! Our speciality is young girls drunk or drugged before they are brutally abused! A great win for our secular values. Sorry I had to remove the exclamation marks from the direct quote from the article as it seems only the writers are allowed to use them on OLO.
Posted by runner, Monday, 24 August 2009 3:48:11 PM
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Hold on a second. You deliberately looked up offensive material, then blame your own actions on your ISP? Seriously? That's like calling up one of those sex phone lines advertised on late night TV, then when offended calling your phone company to complain. They should be responsible for whom you call, huh? I wonder if you also search for offensive books at the library, then complain to the librarians when you find something offensive.

Instead of spending $50 - 80 filtering software, how about changing your preferences to "Use strict filtering (Filter both explicit text and explicit images)" where it says "Preferences" on Google's front page. The offending site no longer comes up when you search for sex. Or better still stop searching for offensive material.
Posted by Grebo, Monday, 24 August 2009 5:23:02 PM
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Where is your evidence that the girls featured on the site are under the age of 18? And I find it more likely that the girls are not being "raped" and are probably just acting. Blaming the ISP on you delibrately searching for material that obviously offends you is just plain moronic, if you don't want to see it then don't click on the link.
Posted by Jarrod, Monday, 24 August 2009 5:44:24 PM
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Yes, OK, Dr Bray went in search of explicit material and was shocked to find it.

But that's not the most important issue here. Isn't the point that we live in a society which harbors a group of individuals, however fringe, who believe it's ok, and even entertaining to not only rape young women, but to further extend that abuse and humiliation through the unlawful circulation of those images? I don't care how old the women are, if they have not given consent freely to both the sexual acts AND the distribution of the footage, that is a criminal offense.

Obviously the majority of men and women would find such behavior inexcusable and revolting and yet, rather than using this forum space to discuss these crucial issues, members have simply diverted attention away from sexual abuse, instead focussing on perceived holes in Bray's article.

As for labeling Bray herself a pervert, that is insulting and supercilious. Bray has also studied anorexia in the past, that does not mean she endorses eating disorders or self harm strategies. Being willing to study something as an academic (including going in search of data) does not mean that you endorse it or are an advocate for it.

Perhaps though she could have left the name of the place out of the article to stop some of the creeps who visit OLO hunting it down
Posted by ninaf, Monday, 24 August 2009 5:51:24 PM
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I agree with other writers. You deliberately went to a porn site called "Pornhub" and express outrage for finding explicit pornographic material which you yourself searched out and then you blame your ISP for enabling you to do so. How irresponsible.
If you don't want a Google search to return pornography, set your search filter to "safe". Problem solved.
Making oblique references to Marxist theory by using a trendy Fredric Jameson type word like "late capitalism", doesn't in any way make your article legitimate sorry. It sounds to me like you got exactly what you were looking for.
The responsibility for regulating the internet lies not with the state, nor with ISPs, nor even with late capitalism, but with the individual. And if individuals such as Abigail Bray deliberately seek to break the law by accessing and distributing illegal material, their names should be passed on to the police who can investigate and lay charges if a crime has been committed.
Sounds like Ms. Bray has got all carried away.
Posted by Zielwolf, Monday, 24 August 2009 6:06:49 PM
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A number of posters do seem to be missing a point the author makes early in the article "I wanted to test the claims of various anti-censorship voices who argue that hard core on-line sexual abuse material is rare and difficult to find"

Clearly that particular site is very easy to find and if the author's description of the content is correct it makes the difficult to find claim look silly.

I'd be surprised if the content was real, as other posters have pointed out large businesses would be silly to put their name to it.

R0bert
Posted by R0bert, Monday, 24 August 2009 7:09:30 PM
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