80% of all web sites are pornagraphic

by Sour Grapes 41 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  Quarterback

  Yes, I agree that the internet, and firewalls and security settings have come along way since the inception of the internet.

  Some may not have any security settings, and are probably using a cheap dial-up system that may exposed t them to some advertising that shows provocative material. I remember the 60's when I walked downtown, and the billboards advertising anything would show something that would be provocative. There was this poster about Raquel Welch...man that left an image burned in my mind till this day. But, I'm dealing with it.
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  breakfast of champions

  I'm surprised they don't consider GoogleBooks pornographic... Contains some of the FINEST VINTAGE publications available!
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  Violia

  quarterback,

  wow the wts should get right on this, billboards are a tool of the devil. he-he
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  Berengaria

  Dave Chapelle
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  Quarterback

  Hey, Viola.

  You are right. I hope that the boys in Brooklyn put this posting right on the Writing Department's desk, first thing tomorrow morning.

  "Stop the presses....Stop the presses...We have a newsflash" " There goes another book" "Overtime for everyone"
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  Anony Mous

  The 80% quote was actually from the WTBTS (can't remember if it was an article or a convention talk) in the early 90's which they have since 'forgotten'. The 'burning images in your brain' is likewise from articles in the WT.

  The matter of fact is that if you have a computer that is popping up pornographic images all the time, most likely you have been visiting way too much porn and not the 'standard' kind either.

  What I've seen in the latest magazines is that they are very afraid of the Internet. The last study article again recommended to 'not have Internet at all' or 'have somebody with you when on the Internet'. What they don't want is people finding websites such as this, jwfacts and such.
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  Quarterback

  Good point, Anony.

  How does one come up with a figure of 80%? Could it be, that they are right on this estimate? How could we be certain?

  What makes up the remaining 20%? Who really cares. We could say that 80% of the food in a Grocery store is Junk food. Is that going to make you stop shopping for food. Maybe we should shop with someone with us. Oh, the images of those Coco Puffs. Those chocolate bars..mmmm.

  Sorry got carried away
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  Anony Mous

  This is from an anti-porn, pro-government-filter source so take this with a grain of salt. It says - contains porn, not necessarily geared towards porn and also mentions the statistics are hard to come by.

  Pornographic websites

  4.2 million (12% of total websites)

  Although Netcraft mentions for that year there were over 70 million INDEXED websites which would probably mean 6% or less in that year was porn.

  I think the 80% was from some crackpot study done on the subject or a statistic taken out of context in the early 90's and (is still) an urban myth among a lot of evangelical websites and preachers.

  I would say from my experience between 1% and 3% are porn sites or if you're using a blocklist based on subject, about 10% of sites that have been classified in a specific subject (such as "social networking", "search engines", "religious") are classified adult or porn.
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  Magwitch

  • 12 percent of all Web sites are porn
  • 25 percent of all search engine requests are for porn
  • 35 percent of all Internet downloads are pornographic
  • Every second, 28,258 Internet users are viewing porn
  • 89 percent of porn is created in the U.S.
  • $2.84 billion in revenue was generated from U.S. porn sites in 2006
  • 70 percent of the Internet porn traffic occurs during the nine to five workday
  • 260 new porn sites go online daily

  12% is a far cry from 80% - typical brother running off at the mouth
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  cuckoo in the nest

  In the real world I'm a computer engineer, and also the lowest form of life in dubdom, a mere study. Although these days most of my effort is spent studying them rather than with them.

  So out of professional curiosity I dragged my arse into the airless, windowless brick bunker of a hall on the hottest day of the year to breathe in other peoples' gaseous emissions (from both ends) for two hours, just to see what their take on the internet would be.

  Christ on a bike, they certainly rose to the challenge. Porno popups? Titty pics on every page? Spontaneous appearance of pussy all over your screen (even when you're not on Icanhazcheezburger.com). Every possible cliche, every biased, unthinking half baked idea they could dredge up, they beat the web to death with it. And I'm there, eyes rolling, biting my pen in half to stifle a cry of "BOLLOCKS", hardly able to take it in. Just how ill informed are these people? Maybe in the mid nineties, long ago, the net was a bit like that. But they made it sound like the world wide wank.

  Oh, and to top it all, after the meeting one of the elders came up to me and asked if I could speed up his internet connection for him. You really couldn't make this crap up, could you?