Word games

Ignore for a moment the context of this bit from the Times:

But the likelihood that pornography will be increasingly accessible by phone has children's advocacy groups mobilizing. This month, the National Coalition for the Protection of Children and Families, a nonprofit group that seeks to promote "biblical morality," met with leaders of the wireless industry to voice concern that phones could provide minors with all-too-easy access to inappropriate material.

Children's advocacy groups? Hardly. These are clearly morality advocacy groups. That, first and foremost, is what they're about, so why name them as anything else? Now, groups that work for more available daycare, or for better enforcement of child abuse laws, those are children's advocacy groups. And while it may be good to keep porn from kids, I'd bet these folks are actually concerned about anyone getting to see any naughty bits.

(Aside: why anyone would want to get porn on their phone is another question entirely. After all, as any Avenue Q fan knows, the internet is for porn. And that's the problem, really - the internet is the perfect vehicle for porn because it's so grassroots and relatively private that anyone can find anything they want. If these groups want to limit kids' access to porn, they should probably do anything they can to promote alternate porn distribution schemes, like these phones.)