From Power to Purpose, by Sam Brownback: on Technology

Pushed FTC study of inappropriateness of kids’ music

Everyone knew what was going on. The public knew it, and the industry was profiting from the violent, sexual material they were producing. We finally came up with two approaches that worked. One was getting the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to conduct a study as to whether or not the entertainment industry was target marketing children with products they had rated as inappropriate for children of that age. In other words, were PG-13 movies being target marketed to 10-year-old boys? Or were violent video games rated “M” for “mature” being marketed to teenage boys?

Internet porn destroys the minds and souls of many

Parents are justifiably concerned for children who are exposed to the worst kinds of pornography on the Internet, and there’s almost no way to prevent them from stumbling onto those Web sites by accident.

It’s important that we find ways to block these images so that children aren’t exposed to salacious materials in this way. It’s just as important that we counsel our kids if we find that they’ve been exposed to it. Pornography exploits both men and women in the most vulgar ways. It treats them as meat, to be bought and sold and manipulated. That in itself is offensive.