Reading the article there, and the various other article around, what seems to be going on is that "unwilling" viewing of pornography including things like file-sharing and hanging around in chatrooms and other internet socialization. In the former case, we're probably looking at situations in which a popular more-or-less innocuous item has been placed on a file-sharing network with its content replaced by pornography, or a piece of pornography has it's name replaced with something pornographic (So "The Report of the Independant Counsel" is renamed "HARRY POTTER 7 SPOILERS", for example). The kids then download the item, open it up, and rar! PORN! And since it's pornography for vandalism's sake, it's probably not much fun anyway. In the second case, we're probably looking at people posting pornographic macros or linking to pornography.

What's going on, however, is that most of these people are responding by... you know... removing the unwanted pornography and going on with their lives. They have some data that seems to connect various real issues with pornography consumption, but we've got the same issues with correlation that we always have. The interesting thing was that the numbers were higher than a similiar study in, I think, 2000. My guess is that we're looking at greater density of internet use among teenagers than any other major source.

Obviously there's also the self-reporting issue, but in these kinds of studies, you have to assume that it's more or less accurate, because the other option is to not do them.

On the wank, I think this is definately revving up for some moral panic, since Myspace seems to have fallen out of the news. My only hope is that farther down in the thread we get to hear the opinions of the eel shark on all this.