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But showing adult content to minors is illegal already. If a minor tries to buy that content in a store, the store owner would be violating the by selling it. Why is the internet different? It's also illegal for an adult to give that material to a minor, even if a minor asked for it. Because Google is a corporation, are they not required to obey the law?

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Note that Safe Search would exclude any visuals that would get a movie an R rating--but it's legal for parents to allow their children to see R rated movies. (And note that there's a grey area where there's stuff that's NC-17 but really contains nothing farther than an R, but either more of it or homosexual rather than heterosexual.)

And I recently ran into a tidbit about the rules in Australia: Detailed pictures of female genitalia are automatically 18+, even if the purpose is educational in showing girls the range of normal genitalia to show them that theirs is normal.

> or homosexual rather than heterosexual.

Do you have a source or more information on this? I'm sure it was implicit due to social norms in decades past but I couldn't find anything recent about this online.

I suggest watching "This Movie is Not Yet Rated".

A law already existing doesn't make something okay.

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