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November 19, 2005
That net porn thing
Nick Carr has an interesting post about porn on the web, and the slow change of what we consider normal. Since I have
- recently read Theodore Dalrymple on our sliding standards and what it does for us (or, at least, for some segments of the population), and
- this morning cleared out the junk trackbacks (Spamlookup let 8 through and caught 341 in a week, bravo) which all point to the same kind of sites he is talking about, and
- three daughters who all have net access and use it all the time (they are 11, 16 and 19, and very smart kids, so it is not that I am very worried, but, as Edward Oakes says, "[...] a neoconservative is a liberal with a teenage daughter.")
...I am tentatively beginning to wonder where the end point in this evolution is. The right-wing crazies and naivist doogooders want to shut down the net and/or impose controls, which, of course, is an unworkable solution that is much worse than the problem. But the sort of "this is not a problem and even discussing it is the thin end of the wedge" answer isn't helping much, either.
Aaahhh, the vagaries of the human existence...
Update: Interesting discussion between Matt Asay and Tim O'Reilly over at Infoworld Open Resource. I agree with the Matt in one thing: It is not the existence, but the intrusion, that is the problem.
Posted by Espen at November 19, 2005 4:22 PM
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