In many families, a child has mastered a technology before the parents.
Teens often are the instigators of the family’s first foray onto the Internet and end up teaching other family members how to use it.
[...] There are very few markets that attract customers willing to pay simply for socializing and only for digitally deliverable goods.
Adult entertainment is one of those markets and it has the virtue of a low barrier of entry.


Some 38% do not think it has had an effect on their child one way or the other.[...] No one was getting the fact that guys wanted real interaction with girls and tools were now available to deliver that experience.Free porn was propagating like crazy and interaction was the one of the few things for which they were willing to pay."The Iranian government said last year that it was blocking 5 million websites," Le Coz said in a telephone interview."They brag about what they can do, perhaps to intimidate their opponents."The complicity of Western companies in Iranian censorship was brought into focus when the Wall Street Journal reported that Iran's ability to monitor online protests "was provided at least in part" by Nokia Siemens Networks, a jointly owned subsidiary of the two European tech firms.Hoping to limit the damage to its reputation, the European telecommunications firm issued a statement explaining that it had only provided Iran the ability to tap wireless phone calls — a function called "lawful intercept" that it is also legally required to sell as a crime-fighting tool in Europe and the United States."Nokia Siemens Networks has not provided any deep packet inspection, web censorship or Internet filtering capability to Iran," the company said. S.-imposed trade embargo, apparently considers Internet censorship so critical that it has developed its own web monitoring tools.