Thomas Mott Osborne: “A year ago, my staff brought to my attention the fact that my name uses a search word that brought up a porn site so…”

“A year ago, my staff brought to my attention the fact that my name uses a search word that brought up a porn site so that meant that anyone in my District who was doing research on their Congressman was subject to a porn site and anyone doing research on athletics or football quite often would be subjected to the same pornographic material. I have grandchildren who are ages 6, 7, and 10, who all use the computer much better than I do, and it really concerns me that innocent words like ``Barbie'' or ``Disneyland'' can bring up graphic pornographic material or invite them into chat rooms that are frequented by pedophiles. So this is an issue that is very personal with me. Of course, we are concerned about first amendment rights, but what about the rights of children who grow up in a wholesome environment to maintain some innocence, to not be exploited? The Pence amendment makes the use of domain names to deliberately mislead children viewing pornography to be a criminal activity. I urge support of the Pence amendment.”