Okay I’m a little late to the party here, but a couple weeks ago News Corp. president Peter Chernin lashed out at the Internet at a conference sponsored by the Progress & Freedom Foundation. Chernin said,
The vast potential of broadband has so far benefited nobody as clearly as it’s benefited downloaders of pornography and pirates of digital content.
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The prevalence of pornographic Web sites and e-mails is a lot more than an insult to common decency. It’s an increasing reason to keep kids and families off of the Internet. And these are only part of the virtual logjam of valueless clutter.
Huh? Has Chernin ever actually watched Fox Television, which News Corp. owns? What, we need to get rid of all the porn and piracy so we can have “Who Wants To Marry a Millionaire: The Broadband Internet Edition”? Or “When Poorly Designed Web Sites Attack”?
To see Chernin criticizing the poor taste of Internet content is a bit like Ted Kaczynski complaining how violent American schools have become.
Source:
Media chief decries Net’s moral fiber. Declan McCullagh, CNET News.Com, August 21, 2002.