Kitty
Porn


A young man using the handle "flea"
uploads a pornographic picture to
an Internet "newsgroup". It happens an
estimated 2000 times a day, but
this time, it's different. The picture
shows a naked six year old, who we
will call Kathy, helplessly tied in thin
blue yarn... and what is perhaps
even more disturbing, the man distributing
the picture is Kathy's legal
guardian. To this date, no legal
action has been taken and Kathy is
still in the custody of "flea". Why has
justice failed Kathy? Why has the law not intervened? The answer is simple...
Kathy is a cat.
[KITTY PORN]
The problem is growing. Each day it is
estimated that as many as twenty pictures of young cats go up on the Internet
without their knowledge or consent. With a computer and phone line, anyone, even
children, can easily find and view these pictures. In fact, in a frightening new
trend children themselves are increasingly responsible for taking and
distributing these startling pictures. What is to be done? Where does free
speech end and compassion begin? In a recent study conducted by Richard Little
it is estimated that there are over a million billion pictures of cats on the
Internet. That number is expected to rise by some 30000000% over the next year.
Projections for the year 2,010 show that there will be more cat pictures on the
internet than molecules of oxygen in the atmosphere. Of course some critics have
questioned Richard's study pointing to the fact that Richard is only ten and a
half and call the study "dangerous, unfounded fiction" Supporters claim it's not
dangerous at all. Both sides agree however that it would be impossible to come
up with accurate numbers... so we'll use these.
All over the world there are increasing
reports of kitty porn. China,
Japan and the Netherlands have all become
hot spots on the
kitty porn circuit. Several organizations
track these phenomena such as the "WWW Cat Map" recently awarded POINT'S
prestigious "Top 5% of the Web" award. It chronicles some of the world's most
notorious cat pages. Pages like these can be a boon to those concerned with
kitty porn,