PUBLISHED: 12:39
GMT, 19 August 2013
A world league table today revealed the countries which view
the most pornography.
The global leaders in porn are the U.S, taking a 60 per cent
share of global internet
pornography,
Two thirds of all U.S porn sites are hosted in California
with the country hosting a total of 4.2 million domains containing
porn.
Meanwhile, the famously liberal Netherlands host over a
quarter of the porn, with 1.8 million domains carrying an
astonishing 187 million pages of
porn.
The UK hosts 52 million
pages of porn, behind only the U.S and Holland. The global leaders
in porn are the U.S, taking a 60 per cent share of global internet
pornography. Meanwhile, the Netherlands hosts over a quarter of the
world's porn
The UK is home to 512,000 domains
hosting 52 million pages of porn.
Germany follows behind at fourth with a 1.16 per cent share
accounting for 8 million pages of porn spread over 80,000
domains.
A breakdown of hosting of
porn websites by state shows that two thirds of all U.S porn sites
are hosted in California. Overall the country hosts a total of 4.2
million domains containing porn, topping the league table
1- United States
2- Netherlands
3- United Kingdom
4- Germany
5- France
6- Canada
7- Japan
8- Australia
9- British Virgin Islands
10- Czech Republic
While Germany has more than double the UK’s web hosting
capacity, the UK has more than six times the amount of porn
pages.
Overall, the UK is thought to be the 9th most connected
country in the world in terms of the number of internet
users.
The figures have led John Carr, a government adviser on child
internet safety, to call for restrictions on registering
pornographic websites on Britain’s national domain.
'My beef has always been about the ease with which children
can be exposed to it or can access it,' said
Mr Carr, writing in his blog.
The figures have led John
Carr, a government adviser on child internet safety, to call for
restrictions on registering pornographic websites on Britain¿s
national domain (stock image)
‘Thus, If the Germans can insist that hard core porn
publishers on their territory must tie the supply of such content
to an age verification process, couldn’t we try something
similar?’
The data was compiled by California-based filtering
company MetaCert between
December 2011 to August 2013 using what it claims to be ‘the
world’s most sophisticated crawlers and content classification
platform’.
The group said it hopes to use the data to provide better
internet safety products across tablets and
smartphones.
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