3 degrees of porn

I couldn't believe this story when I read it, but it seems that an on-campus police officer for a Florida middle school is facing a criminal investigation over his MySpace account, because a person linked to one of his friends on MySpace has a link to a porn site on his profile. In other words, it is possible for you to navigate from this police officer's MySpace profile to a porn site in just 3 clicks.

Now my question is: is everyone insane??? Why is this police officer responsible for links that other people (that are not even connected directly to him...and even if they were) put on their profile?

This kind of reminds me of the "small-word networks" phenomenon, a theory that states that in general a person is connected to any other person in the world by just six-degrees of separation.

It makes me wonder if the same phenomenom applies to the Internet. In fact, it is my conviction that everyone that has a MySpace, Hi5, Facebook or any other social network account is somehow linked to a porn site in just a few clicks.

So, in solidarity to this police officer that is being wrongfully accused of linking to a porn site, take the challenge and shout out to the world your degrees of separation to a porn site.

I did take the challenge and these are the results:

• On this blog there are some Google ads. I clicked on the following one:

• From that ad I went to this site, which had the following banner

• Thinking that this banner may lead me to somewhere interesting, I go to this page where I can find images such as this one:
  

This is definitely some questionable content to be "linked" to my site, but it is not explicit enough to be considered porn, so I'll let it sly. But now I know that my blog has only 3-degrees of separation to some nude pictures...cool :-)

In another test, you can go from my blog to here and then to here, where you can find this video:



Or this one:



There's definitely some nude action there, but should I be blamed? I don't think so.

And what about this one that you can access from my blog, and where you can find pictures like this one, this one, this one or this one?

These are just some examples of what you can get by clicking on your mouse 3 times starting from my blog. Imagine what happens if you decide to click 4, 5, 6 or more times? And should I be responsible for what you can access starting from my blog? Nope, and neither should this guy.