Greatest I am writes:
Prohibition did not create the criminal empires. Demand for the product did.
Wrong. There's a demand for water, isn't there? Prohibit water and you can bet your bottom dollar that criminal empires will rise to meet the demand. Prohibit porn and it goes underground where the criminal element can exploit women to a much greater degree.
Greatest I am writes:
I am not advocating censorship of any ideas.
It's a slippery slope. If you give government the means to censor some things on the Internet, what's to stop them from censoring other things as they see fit? What if they decide socialist ideas are harmful?
Greatest I am writes:
You may not think that those horrendous stats and effects on our young are not worthy of note but I do.
One more time, I'm talking about the lesser of two evils. Censorship is worse than whatever harm you think is associated with porn.