Take this one from Sky News for instance.
Three quarters of adults using the internet who have "stumbled across" child pornography do not know how to report it.
Research by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) showed 77% of adults who had seen pictures of child abuse on the web did not know what to do about it.
This was despite 70% of users saying the availability of child sexual abuse images was their top concern when using the internet.
In the spirit of Ben Goldacre, please can we see the empirical evidence. A good start would be the internet history files of the "77%", then can we see what Google, Altavista, or other search engine search words were used? I for one don't believe you are going to find these images "by accident", you certainly won't find stuff on the interweb unless you specifically go looking for it. Typing words like "donation", "yacht" and "Corfu" into Google is hardly likely to return any salacious images of young Brazilians. Typing the word "sex" almost certainly will.
I suspect, that this report is merely a smokescreen for those wishing to promote censorship of the web. Another "WE MUST PROTECT THE CHIIIIILLLLDDDRRUUUUUNNNN!!!!!!" rallying cry. An insidious attempt at persuading the great unwashed that they must be protected from the evil internet and implement a certification system for websites and bloggers.
Fuck off!
