Sex and the world wide web
More or Less
BBC
4.6 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2013
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
The world of porn is often exaggerated but does it really make up 37% of the web? And after some high profile cases we ask whether the American football league has a crime problem? This edition was first broadcast on the BBC World Service.
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| 0:45.7 | slash podcasts. This is the short edition of More or Less, first broadcast on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:55.8 | Hello and welcome to More or Less on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:59.4 | I'm Ruth Alexander. In this week's programme, we look at the offending rate among American football teams after what feels to some like a spate of arrests |
| 1:08.0 | The latest involving star player Aaron Hernandez who's officially been charged with |
| 1:18.0 | murder. But first, many things about pornography are |
| 1:21.8 | exaggerated including the statistics quoted to suggest that the internet is a wash with porn. |
| 1:28.0 | Listeners, George and Deborah have both emailed us separately at more or less at BBC.co. UK to ask about how much porn |
| 1:36.5 | there really is on the internet. How can usage be measured George Wonders |
| 1:40.3 | through the numbers of sites, data streaming, minutes viewed, and Deborah has been |
| 1:44.7 | wondering about some of the startling figures she's been reading in the press, |
| 1:48.0 | figures like this. The internet is now 37% porn. |
| 1:53.0 | Can statistics like this really be right, she asks. |
| 1:57.0 | Well, the BBC's technology correspondent Mark Ward has been looking into all this, |
| 2:01.0 | and he isn't so sure they are. |
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