Internet providers ought to be setting up a default block on porn sites, which would require those trying to access them to register. As John Carr, the Government’s adviser on child internet protection, has said, Google needs to show moral leadership on this matter — not least because, if it were to block such material, other net providers would follow.
But Google is refusing to do so — almost certainly because of the loss of lucrative trade that would follow.
For as the technology website ExtremeTech reported last year, no less than 30 per cent of all web traffic involves pornography.
Me: I think Melanie Phillips' suggestion would go a long way towards reducing the worldwide addictive and destructive force that pornography has become. Right now, it's just too easy to access. If one had to register, it would have a chilling effect on pornography browsing. Phllips's article has a lot more to say about pornography and child abuse and rape and so I advise reading the whole piece.