KUALA LUMPUR: Cartoon characters like Pokemon and My Little Pony, which are children's favourites, have been used as fronts for links to pornographic sites on the Internet.
Science, Technology and Innovations Minister Datuk Seri Dr Jamaluddin Jarjis cited a case in 2000 when a search on these characters turned up 26 websites containing hundreds of links to indecent material, of which 30% were hardcore pornography.
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