'Porn King' Says Google Should Block Porn Access

mikesd81 writes "The Register has a story saying that one of the world's biggest porn producers wants Google and other search sites to put up barriers between kids and adult entertainment. 'Steven Hirsch, the co-chairman and co-founder of Vivid Entertainment, is to deliver this message on Saturday in New Haven, Connecticut as he addresses an army of Yale University MBA candidates. "Responsible companies in the adult industry such as ours have done a great deal to deter minors from accessing adult material," Hirsch proclaims from inside a Vivid press release. "None of the search engines and portals, but particularly Yahoo and Google, has taken any significant steps in this direction.'"

What about me?

[edmicman]

How the heck am I supposed to find stuff?

Re:Meta Tags

[tverbeek]

Or just implement RFC 3514 [ietf.org]. That would solve so many problems in addition to porn.

Dirty pictures on Google

[davidwr]

Soil [google.com].

Thank you, thank you, thank you *ducks*.

Dr. Cox (from Scrubs the TV series)

[El_Muerte_TDS]

I'm fairly sure that if they took all the porn off the Internet, there'd only be 1 website left, and it would be called Bring Back The Porn.

Great pretext!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Do an image search for some porn. See all those thumbnails?

Say, how much time have you spent doing this scientific research?

Re:Oh the Humanity!

[mental666]

The OP brings up a very good issue. Webmasters should have a means to tell search engines what type of content is ok to index vs what kind is not. For instance, a plain text file at the document root that spelled out what subpaths were ok to spider and cache or not. We could establish a convention for this directive. Perhaps a convention of calling this file of directives something consistent across sites... a 'robots.txt' if you will. Oh..... wait.....

Seriously though, perhaps it is time to extend robots.txt to include more metadata about more conditions where content can be spidered. Simple augmentation of paths with a few tags such as NSFW, Pr0n, and goatse could go a long way to helping.... blah blah.. insert semantic web tripe here....

Re:Will never work...

[ruggerboy]

Kids these days. To think they'll never know the joy of the JC Penny catalog's bra section. /nostalia

Re:Oh the Humanity!

[g0bshiTe]

deep searching

I think I saw this Vivid video.

Re:Oh the Humanity!

[Mister Whirly]

"Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals... except the weasel." - Homer Simpson

Re:Oh the Humanity!

[Anonymous Coward]

...a shaved female private part.

Gosh, it wasn't a.... a VAGINA... was it? Did you scream?

I'm off google now-- don't use it any more.

Too easily corrupted, are ye?

Re:Oh the Humanity!

[caluml]

Well personally I think its the parents job, and not society's, to filter what the children should see.

We've got to turn to "Frosty Piss (770223)" to save us all have we?

Re:Oh the Humanity!

[Anonymous Coward]

Kids know how to use proxy servers.. I mean, I did. So that type of security is not viable, and also, it's not Google's fault porn is on the internet, and kids will -always- find adult themed material if they really want to. There is ubiquitous internet access (via wireless APs, cyber cafes, school networks, etc) and there are also hacked Sony PSPs with great apps for doing this sort of thing. safe.google.com is not gonna make google.com.safe.

Ah hah! That's the ticket - the .safe TLD! But who gets to be in charge of who registers .safe? Hopefully not the paranoid parents on my street... My vote: Steve Hirsch. You KNOW he'd have vivid.com.safe up right away, and it would be soft-core enough to not be filtered... then everyone (or no-one?) is happy...