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I think it's also worth pre-empting the 'won't somebody please think of the children' argument, too.
There's been an awful lot of sensationalism and nonsense spread about the impact on young people potentially (just potentially) being able to access porn.
As someone who has *actually grown up* with the internet - not merely seen it emerge and then speculate about how children interface with it - but someone who as actually lived among the first generation of children with internet access, I find these arguments utterly unconvincing and wholly one-sided. Were children in my school - a very small, remote rural school I might add - accessing pornography? Yes, they were. Just as they were masturbating, swearing, talking about sex etc. I have never seen a shred of evidence that this is a process which damages a person's psychology which is not already damaged. It's just as fatuous and unsupported as the arguments people used to make about roleplaying games in the '80s, or video games in the '90s/2000s - I'm highly, highly sceptical that it has anything like the level of impact on children that people seem to think it does.
I consider my internet-access from an early age one of the most precious things of my life. I've had access to information I never would have otherwise (see for instance the huge numbers of highly accessible science education videos on Youtube, from users like Thunderf00t). Porn is only as big a part of the internet as sex is in the lives of human beings generally - a big one, yes. But it's not the defining and overriding feature by any stretch of the imagination."
I agree with this. I too grew up with the net..I remember when there was none outside of the government and university campuses.
Responsible parents don't let their kids drive cars, drink alcohol and so on. Its not enough for parents to say "oh the kids know the computer better than I do." If you aren't prepared to control it then don't have it in the house. Personally I have no use whatever for porn but that's my choice. I think that anything that involves a non consenting partner, human or animal should be illegal in all its forms including images and websites, but that isn't the same as banning someone else's definition of porn. I do think that all ISP's should offer a net nanny/ blocking type service at no extra cost.