Deputy Prime Minister Manoa Kamikamica says Fiji’s web traffic to pornographic sites is “a silent epidemic.”

While delivering an update in Parliament this week on the National Taskforce to Address Pornography, he shared that the last time he took the floor on the issue, one network provider in Fiji said over a period of three months, about 626TB of data was consumed watching or downloading porn.

“To put this into context, 626TB is approximately equal to a 100 million books,” Mr Kamikamica said.

“Imagine, having a collection of movies that would take over 150 years to watch non-stop, even if you watched one movie every single day. This shows how large this traffic of data is.

“For a period of one month, another network provider found that the total adult content was 92TB or 1.6 percent of their total data volume for one month.

“We can see that the adult content and pornography have carved out a significant presence, consuming a substantial portion of network traffic.

“The numbers do not lie. Although it is impossible to put any realistic number on how much of the internet is made up of adult content, we can be assured that the industry is huge. It is a silent epidemic, shaping our digital world and impacting countless lives.”