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Subject Internet Porn is destroying America

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Original Message The Washington Times editorializes about the "virulent cancer" that is destroying our economy. Toxic bank assets? Nope--Internet porn. (

The Times supports Senator Chuck Grassley in calling for a "national conversation" about employees watching porn on their computers at work.

Of course, we know what these "conversations" turn into when kicked off by politicians--witness the circus of Congressional hearings around the issue of Major League Baseball and steroids.

I've blogged about attempts to regulate the Internet before, because I think that keeping this "last frontier" safe from regulation is very importnat for the interests of the entrepreneurial community.

So what about this claim that workplace internet porn is draining productivity and wasting wages?

Let's look at the only evidence the Times uses to back up this claim:

As ranking member of the Committee on Finance, Sen. Grassley has sent a letter to the National Science Foundation asking for more information on employees viewing pornography on company time.

He cited the most recent NSF Semiannual Report that referred to a systemic problem in which government computers were being used to view sexually explicit material.

One employee spent 20 percent of his work time viewing pornography - a cost of $58,000 in compensation he received for work he was not doing.

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