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“There are technical means to go around the law, there are these other ways for kids to come across porn, so it doesn’t really address the issue,” she said,

Raicu said that while the internet has been compared to the Wild West in terms of its intractable nature with respect to the law, the analogy ultimately does not hold up. “It’s interesting because the non-digital Wild West got tamed, but the digital world has its own sort of nature and ecosystem, and it’s different than the non-digital ones,” she said. “So you can’t really translate things directly from one to the other is what we’re finding.”

Irina Raicu, director, internet ethics, quoted by Fort Worth Star-Telegram via Yahoo! News.