STORY CITY, Ia. - Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney showed his unfamiliarity with the internet during his anti-porn speech at a campaign-sponsored "ice cream social" held July 27.
"YouTube is a website that allows kids to network with one another and make friends and contact each other," said Romney, who is making campaign stops throughout Iowa this week. "YouTube looked to see if they had any convicted sex offenders on their web site. They had 29,000."
Romney, of course, meant the popular social website, MySpace, and not YouTube, a site that allows Internet users to upload and watch a variety of videos.
According to the Chicago Tribune, Romney vowed to encourage computer manufacturers to install internet filtering software on computers sold at retail to help parents protect their children from pornography.
"I want to enforce our obscenity laws," Romney continued. "And I want to make sure people who are using the Internet as a way to become predators on kids—that we stop that once and for all."
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