I have spent far too much time trying to understand why people do the things they do. Saying cruel things without provocation, in particular. Why do people create viruses to harm the computers of people they don't even know? (Well, I did hear the biggest creators of viruses are the companies that create software to protect you from them--like gangs that make people pay them for protection from them, the gang!!!) It baffles me. Some people are just cruel.

Seeing sexually explicit material generally doesn't offend me, but if I know it isn't supposed to be on a site or whatever, I find it annoying, because if it's not ok for me, it's not ok for you. There are plenty of places you can create your own blog and post adult material, if you want to. Just a couple days ago, a friend invited me to check out her site on bebo.com, and I saw a kitty video, clicked it, and on the page of the kitty video, on the right, were "Recently viewed" videos (still pics of the videos), I guess of the the person who posted the kitty video, or recently viewed overall. The first pic on there was a sexually explicit video, and my friend said they don't allow nudity on there. I didn't specifically see anything in their Terms of Service, although it says they don't allow "obscene" content; I don't know how they define obscene, so I don't know if that includes all adult content or what. In any case, I thought, what if a kid sees that?

Unfortunately, no filter is perfect, and the Internet has far too many users to keep perfect control. People will spam, post inappropriate content in inappropriate places, and the best we can do is help by reporting them. In real life, too many people don't want to get involved. They say, it's none of my business. If you report the bad guys, they call you a rat or a snitch, but I grew up with the understanding that if people don't help by turning in people doing wrong, they're allowing the crimes to go on, and they have no business complaining.

"All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke