updated | A Nassau County, New York, legislator has sued Google for “putting Child Pornography profits ahead of the well-being of children and community members,” reports Chron.com.Highlights from the report:“This case is about a multibillion-dollar company that promotes and profits from Child Pornography,” the complaint states, adding that Child Pornography “has become an obscenely profitable and integral part” of Google’s business model, according to the report. The complaint states that Google’s search capability “is so simple and easy that even a child can use it. “Unfortunately,” the suit continues, “this is the unabated injury and harm that [Google] has, in fact, facilitated, aided and abetted, in dereliction of its legal duties.” Simple searches on Google not only turn up results that provide easy access to Child Pornography that is readily available for minors to view but also, alarmingly, reveal “sponsored links” that are obscene and illegal from which Google generates sponsorship revenue.Porn is obviously the Web’s dirty little non-secret. (Nielsen//NetRatings says hardcore adult websites regularly rank in the top five for men aged 25-54 in its competition index, which reveals standout trends in web use, I have reported for The Sydney Morning Herald.) But child porn is a far differentt matter, in most states and countries. China is one thing when it comes to PR disasters for the do-no-evil web giant. Child porn is an entirely more difficult matter when it comes to staunch family groups.Clearly parents have a duty to tame the Web for their kids.A Google spokesman said: “Child pornography is vile and illegal and Google prohibits it in our products. When we find or are made aware of any child pornography, we remove it from our products, including our search engine. We also report it to the appropriate law enforcement officials and fully cooperate with the law enforcement community to combat child pornography. In addition, Google offers a service called SafeSearch for our search engine that works to filter out adult content.” He said the company’s advertising policy, “which is online, says specifically: Advertising is not permitted for the promotion of child pornography or other non-consensual material.”More information about SafeSearch can be found on its Web site. Is Google, and the others, doing enough to cleanse the Web of child porn? Talk back to us below. Technology Industry