TAG | Vivid asks Google and Yahoo to help keep kids away from porn |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Monday, 18 February 2008 | |
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Page 1 of 2 Although the statement is now public knowledge, he also made the plea in a lecture to graduate business students of the Ivy League University on their ‘Vivid Day’ (Sat Feb 16) during the third biennial Sex Week at Yale (SWAY), dedicated to discussions about "love, sex, intimacy, and relationships." Hirsch said: "Responsible companies in the adult industry such as ours have done a great deal to deter minors from accessing adult material”. Continuing, Hirsch noted that: “None of the search engines and portals, but particularly Yahoo and Google, has taken any significant steps in this direction. Vivid will work with any company that is ready to make it much more difficult for children to be exposed, even inadvertently, to material intended only for adults. This is not about First Amendment rights, it is about protecting children." Hirsch wants ISPs and search engines to “vigorously promote their filtering and age verification programs to their subscribers so that it will be much more difficult for minors to purchase adult content on the Internet”, and said: “The ISPs, as well as payment systems and adult producers, all need to be more responsible with regard to allowing X-rated material to be obtained by non-adults”. Hirsch notes that running Vivid is like any other studio – they’re in it not only to make porn, but to make money – and he wants to more ‘creatively’ use the Internet. Please read onto page 2 for details. |
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