[LINK] Onus on providers to clean up web content

[Brendan Scott]

Irene Graham wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 18:35:18 +1100, Ivan Trundle wrote:
> 
>> On 31/12/2007, at 6:29 PM, Brendan Scott wrote:
>>
>>> Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>>>> Onus on providers to clean up web content
>>>>
>>> []
>>>
>>>> A report by the Australia Institute in 2003 showed 84 per cent of
>>>> boys
>>>> and 60 per cent of girls using the internet had experienced
>>>> unwanted exposure to sexual material.
>>>>
>>> Why would this figure be gender dependent?
>>>
>> The key word here is 'unwanted' perhaps, which might explain it...
> 
> Probably given the 'boys' and 'girls' surveyed by Newspoll for the 
> Australia Institute were aged 16-17 years and the question asked was "When 
> using the Internet yourself, have you ever seen sex sites accidentally or 
> when you didn't mean to?"

Seems to go against stereotypes - ie girls more likely to want such material.  Maybe there is a gender difference in interacting w. the internet? Girls are better at not chancing upon it? Boys are falsely modest?