[Below, coincidentally, is a press release forwarded by an N2H2 rep and an analysis of N2H2 by a prominent critic of filtering. --Declan] ********** Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 10:15:56 -0700 From: "David Burt" <dburtat_private> To: <declanat_private> Subject: Those Naughty Brits: Almost four million Britons visited adult websites during June Looks like it's more than upper lips that are getting stiff with Englishmen log on to the net. --David Almost four million Britons visited adult websites during June http://www.netvalue.com/corp/presse/index_frame.htm?fichier=cp0034.htm London, August 9th 2001 Pornography web sites were visited by 3.8 million home Internet users in the UK in June 2001, according to Internet monitoring company NetValue. This accounts for more than a quarter of the entire UK home Internet population. UK visitors to adult websites spent more than 45 minutes on these sites each in June. Pornographic sites make up 41.2 per cent of all the sites visited in the UK with a significant audience. Students (23.2 per cent), manual workers (15 per cent), and professionals (12.8 per cent) are the largest groups of UK visitors to pornographic sites. However Germany has the largest audience for online pornography in Europe with more than 5.3 million Germans visiting an adult site in June. They also spent more time on these type of sites than any other nationality - each German visitor spent almost an hour on pornographic sites in June. NetValue data also showed that more than half (52.3 per cent) the websites visited in June by a significant number of German users were of an adult nature. Spain has the greatest proportion of visitors to pornographic sites - 40 per cent of Spanish home Internet users visiting a pornography site in June. "Pornography has become a lucrative online business, with many companies now recognising it as a valuable additional revenue stream," NetValue's Alki Manias said. "And this would seem to be a stable business area - the popularity of online pornography continues unchecked." Pornographic sites are also popular amongst the earliest adopters of the Internet. People who first got online at home before 1997 account for 18.5 per cent of visitors to pornographic sites, though they only make up 14.1 per cent of the whole UK online population. In the UK, lastminute.com has just introduced an auction for adult toys and aids, whilst in Germany, Freenet.de and T-Online are also moving into the adult business. ----------------------------------- David Burt, Public Relations N2H2, Inc. E-mail:dburtat_private Web: http://www.n2h2.com Address: 900 4th Avenue, Suite 3600 Seattle, WA 98164 Office Phone: 206 892-1130 Cell Phone: 206 915-1283 Fax: 509 271-4226 ----------------------------------- ********** From: jwat_private To: declanat_private Subject: N2H2 Inc., censorware and freedom of speech Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 02:13:23 GMT I've just posted the first in a series of articles profiling censorware company N2H2 Inc. of Seattle: http://www.spectacle.org/cs/bess1.html That one is on the company's financial situation--fifty cent stock price, seven million dollar loss for the quarter, facing delisting by NASDAQ. Future articles will cover the company's claim that it uses sophisticated artificial intelligence, give examples of what it really blocks and doesn't, and at the "human review" process it uses. In a 1999 report, The Censorware Project, http://censorware.net, disclosed that N2H2 blocked numerous innocuous and sociallly useful sites including Bible pages and Feminists Against Censorship, while letting through hardcore porn like asiansluts.com. I'll be examining whether N2H2's track record has changed since then. I would be delighted to see some professional journalists take a look at this company, which has achieved a significant penetration of the K12 market. I would be happy to help in any way I can--brainstorm, exchange information, even point you to the sources I've found. Hope to hear from you...... ********** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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