Really dude? Keeping pornography down is the work of private Christian organizations going around government inaction?
Surely we can all come together to agree that searching for Pokemon, a subject plenty of very underage people are going to look for, on Google Images should not turn up hard core pornography. Surely, we can agree to that.
We can't agree because of a the motivation behind it. Id say it shouldn't come up because it's not relevant to your search, having nothing to do with it being pornography. There is no real reason to keep children from seeing pornography. Hey, in some cultures pornography is encouraged, and in others sex is taught by example at around puberty, before marriage is even allowed to take place.
And yes,
- "Government inaction" because it would be illegal and unethical to have government enforce morality.
- Christian organizations because they are the dominate moral activists in our country, and in general they are more puritan than other organizations. I include among them organizations like the MPAA (movie ratings) and even Alcoholics Anonymous btw, since they specifically dictate that they have church leaders on their board.
- Conservative organizations (under the real version of conservative, not rush limbaugh version) is the catch all for other organizations that censor these things. Barnes and Nobles is a conservative organization, as is disney (though religion is sometimes suspect among the owners), as is basically any large retailer or nonprofit. They do a lot of voluntary censorship, but they let a lot through that some people might still want censored
It's not a conspiracy, it's just the little-advertised way things are set up on our side of the world compared to how things are set up elseware.