Only 1 percent of Web pages have porn? | News.blog | CNET News.com

Only 1 percent of Web pages have porn? | News.blog | CNET News.com:

...Rimm's study was uncritically reported by Time magazine, which in turn was waved around on the floor of the U.S. Senate by proponents of Internet censorship. It became famous in part because of one key figure: 83.5 percent of images on Usenet discussion groups were pornographic.

Now a new study, performed by a statistician commissioned by the U.S. Justice Department, is reporting nearly the opposite result: that only about 1 percent of Web pages contain sexually explicit material...