“One of the most thorough reports ever produced on protecting children from Internet pornography has concluded there are no simple solutions to the problem.”
“‘Though some might wish otherwise, no single approach — technical, legal, economic, or educational — will be sufficient,’ wrote the authors of the report, ‘Youth, Pornography and the Internet,’ which was released Thursday by the National Research Council. ‘Rather, an effective framework for protecting our children from inappropriate materials and experiences on the Internet will require a balanced composite of all of these elements, and real progress will require forward movement on all of these fronts.'”
The report did not recommend any legislative plan to combat internet porn.
Filters can be very effective, at the expense of large amounts of legitimate content.
“The report compared the problem of protecting children from online risks to dealing with a more mundane hazard of daily life. ‘Swimming pools can be dangerous for children,’ the authors wrote. ‘To protect them, one can install locks, put up fences, and deploy pool alarms. All of these measures are helpful, but by far the most important thing that one can do for one’s children is to teach them to swim.'”
The process is very complex, not one that can be easily solved.