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Blogger and writer Dana Blankenhorn apparently thinks I “completely freaked out” in my assessment of the recent study that reports that nearly half of teens have been exposed to online porn. In fact, he goes so far as to allege that I have claimed that kids who see porn online will “go blind”.

As a “religious expert” (which is the way Blankenhorn prefaces his claims against my statements), I have to say that I find it quite interesting that he will rail against “domain name speculation” (a form of cybersquatting that targets typos made when entering URLs directly, in order to redirect browsers to sites containing porn, spyware, viruses, trojans, etc) as an abomination, but would slam the promotion of other means and forms of net safety, particularly for kids.

The irony of this whole thing is that he and I are saying basically the same thing. No, I didn’t talk about “domain name speculation” businesses, and the need to crackdown on them. But, I did say that “work needs to be done to make it more difficult for porn sites to do mass-marketing, and generate blocks on delivered content to determine that the recipient is of legal age and desires to view the images.”

But, who am I to say such things? Apparently I’m not so enlightened as guys like Blankenhorn. Apparently I’m just a “religious expert” who knows nothing of technology and the net.

I beg to differ with you on that, sir.

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