Seriously, I'll be the first to admit to it… Ever since the days that I had my own computer (a the time a top of the line Pentium 90 with 64MB RAM running Windows 95) running on a 33.6k dial-up internet connection I've found ways of accessing porn. I can understand parents not wanting their children to be exposed to such content because they don't want their children to be exposed to something they don't understand. The part of the whole situation that I don't really understand is the part where my situation comes into play. Even though I was seriously under age at the time I started searching for porn, I was determined enough to find ways around it.
The above situation and statements leads me to believe that pornography is something that we have just placed a societal taboo around. If the person is old enough to understand what it is, what they like, and they really want it, trust me when I say that they will get their hands on what they're looking for. My only news flash for the parents in these cases is that if their children have started to reach puberty, they probably already know what porn is and in most cases, they'll gain access to it one way or another, whether you want them to or not.
Also, with regards to the whole internet "censorship" issue, these places fail to take into account that although they have control over the content that can pass through in their own country, restricting access to websites in the end is ultimately useless. Tor is one example of a way of getting around such blockades, without being noticed. Other methods include the use of a VPN, newsgroups, and other proxy services. For instance, your ISP could try to block connections to 65.95.35.115 (random IP I made up), but if your internet connection is being routed to 67.69.95.25 (another random IP I made up) to forward that signal through either as a Proxy or VPN to connect to the original 65.95.35.115, the only thing your provider is going to see is that you're connecting to 67.69.95.25, which isn't blocked and therefore allow the traffic because your ISP cannot tell that the actual end destination of that packet is actually the banned IP of 65.95.35.115... See why I think that this kind of censorship is an absolute hysterical joke?
