The History of Modern Pornography

The following paper analyzes the evolution of pornography from 1527 until 2009. It addresses the people, inventions, events and phenomena that have shaped pornography's modern history. This paper has identified four meaningful trends.

Via ASP site:

Why Conroy loves porn

Every time anti-filtering campaigners mention porn, they play right into Senator Conroy's hands.

Conroy obviously doesn't care what the online community thinks of his mandatory filtering plans. He will only change his mind about filtering if mainstream Australia turns against him, and that's never going to happen while the debate remains focused on porn.

SMH Link:

Paraben's Porn Detector Stick sniffs out unwanted images on your computer

I'm not quoting this article because it has a fairly negative spin on pornography. My attitude towards porn is that it is a part of people private lives and sexuality so it is none of the governments business provided the participants are consenting adults.

I don't think that porn harms teenagers particularly. It didn't hurt me or my friends.

Anyway, the Porn Detector Stick looks like a good idea. You run the software on a computer and it pulls all the porn off it. If you're stepping your computer down to the kids or giving a work computer back you can be reasonably confident that it isn't going to express your sexuality to kids or workmates.

Gizmag Article:

"Why Conroy loves porn"

Every time anti-filtering campaigners mention porn, they play right into Senator Conroy's hands.

Conroy obviously doesn't care what the online community thinks of his mandatory filtering plans. He will only change his mind about filtering if mainstream Australia turns against him, and that's never going to happen while the debate remains focused on porn.

http://digihub.smh.com.au/node/1553

Peer to Peer is evil

Uni network running porn and pirate movies

The Age article:

See government. It all happens via peer to peer... are you listening? If Senator Conroy tries to attack peer to peer networks they'll just dig in a little deeper. Oh! I know. Here's a policy for you to mull over Senator. Why not ban computers at universities. That's a mental policy that wont work! Yay!

The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.
John Perry Barlow

Before the hysterical hand flapping starts, this is pornography, not child abuse material.