Inappropriate Internet Content: It's More Than Just Pornography

Inappropriate Internet Content: It's More Than Just Pornography.

In a previous article, I wrote about Internet pornography and how easy it was to access. This article focuses on other inappropriate content on the net.

Any person will tell you that if first you don't succeed, try again. Unfortunately, that doesn't just apply to the good things in the world. If people are looking out for porn, label it as something else. Add the word girl to anything on a web server and you'll find something dirty, but since they don't use the word porn, they'll pass over it. It's like making something cold to mask it from heat-seeking missiles, just a strategy to survive. Type a celebrity's name into a search engine and there'll be a site with raunchy pictures of them. Don't want to look at pictures? Then just listen to uncensored music with more swear words than the gross national income of the United States. Don't want to be caught by other people that use your computer? Then just get a map to the nearest strip joint or dance club, they're basically the same thing now, and you're off. The Internet isn't supposed to be the trench-coat guy on the street saying: "you wanna buy a watch?" The Internet is supposed to be a source of great things. It's supposed to be an encyclopedia, an arcade, a way of talking to far-away friends, a road map to the world. Now it's the following: a digital porn shop, a gathering of garbage, a scammer's paradise, and a pervert's dream. Don't get me wrong, I'm not here to judge the people who watch this stuff, because it is their choice Freedom of expression is utterly important, as we are allowed to share our beliefs and opinions without fear of government censorship. There is, however, a limit to how much we should have to take. However, I am proud to note that some sites have begun to strike down such videos, porn being a "tag" or not. It takes a conscience to pull that off, to tell the people who uploaded it no, that's enough of that. However, there is still some crap on the web that needs to go. For example, there is a group on youtube that is devoted to videos of women in panties and bras. This is not a slam at youtube, a website that has brought a lot of legitimate entertainment and a chance to have people see your videos across the world. Too bad that for every good thing on the web there seems to be about 50 bad ones. For example, here are some of the top 100 online videos for September 15th: "Sexy Strip EXTREM HOT", "HOT SEXY GIRLS MAKING OUT", "Sexy Strip?", "Naked News Documentary", "hot girls making out", "Webcam girls go wild", "SEXY EROTiC LESBIAN GiRLS WET KiSSING and HOT M", "Hot sexy Asian girls strip naked", and "naked news". Where was I when this crap came out to this degree? Oh, as a side note, some have now been deleted, and at least one had the courtesy to ask if the viewer was 18. Going down the list, the first video I saw that had nothing to do with sex or body noises was "Snake coughs up entire hippo". Weird as that video sounds, at least it cracked the top 25. The first inoffensive to anyone video I saw was "A good comic video found some where on net" at number 47, almost halfway down the list. Of course, I concede that in not watching these videos, it is possible, as I have seen it before, that there is some joke in it, like one I saw where it played a kiss scene from a cartoon and it said extra footage, which turned out to be a loud scream made by the filmmaker's computer and a sign afterwards about the joke. However, and this is infuriating, there were some videos that were joking about women trying to talk seriously about the problems they face with peer-pressure about sex, but then they talk about how much fun doing these horrible things are. When did this become appropriate? So now we can have women making fun of attempts to help girls with peer-pressure by making them into complete whores? How advanced our society really is. It's about time that we at least stopped making these things seem attractive and ok to watch. I don't want to go back to completely bland entertainment, but at the same time, watching Cindy Crawford give Jay Leno her panties after losing to him in strip poker on national television, which was then posted online is just sad. By all means, make television realistic, not that everything in the world is ok crap, but don't force inappropriate stuff on people and then claim with a straight face that the real world is like that. Yeah, in strip joints! Stay the Hell out of our entertainment on the Internet.