Quote of the Day

It’s clearly not good for your children to be able to find pornography too easily at a young age. But a speech given by a former political head in Utah comparing Internet porn to a handgun may be the dumbest, overreaction-ist analogy you’ll read today.

About 1,000 Utahns were told to join the “war on pornography” Saturday at a conference aimed at teaching them how to protect themselves and their children against it or how to get help if they are addicted.

“Internet pornography is the sexual revolution times 1,000,” said Patrick Trueman, former chief of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section Criminal Division under President Reagan and President George H.W. Bush.

He urged listeners to lobby politicians to enforce the federal laws that already exist against hotels, cable and satellite companies providing hard-core pornography. And he told parents to use computer filters.

Without one, “you might as well say to your kids, ‘Anything goes. We don’t love you enough to protect you.’

“What’s more damaging to a child, a handgun or a computer?” he rhetorically asked. “A handgun may not be loaded. The computer is loaded; it’s loaded to the hilt.”

Internet porn is ‘sexual revolution times 1,000,’ ex-official says [Salt Lake Tribune]

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