Net Nanny, as I use it, has nothing to do with censorship, and everything to do with protection. My 11 year old loves cats. Search Google on "pussy". What do you think you get??? Pages and pages of explicit, triple "X", stuff. Does an 11 year old need to see that? Certainly not! THAT is what NN prevents. Accidental exposure to grossly age inappropriate material. Our eight year old (with the oldest, most likely to croak PC in the house) likes to surf the Barbie web site, the Bratz web site, and a few other young-kids oriented sites. She doesn't need to accidentally wind up on the "Barb Does Brazil" web site. And chat rooms? We all know what kind of predators like to cruise those. Kids haven't been on this planet for long enough to develop the street smarts to avoid these sickos. There's no real NEED for them to be in chat rooms anyway. There are plenty of other brainless pastimes available to them. On the other hand, we gave our oldest her own copy of Poser for her eleventh birthday (my old P5 license. I bought a whole new license for P6 when it came out for that reason). She uses it to illustrate strories that she writes. I don't censor her Runtime. And she doesn't spend time rendering any of the characters in the nude. She isn't interested. As a parent you have to pick your battles. :-)