Society is so concerned about kids being exposed to suggestive images and videos – but violet video games appear to be okay, and what about the violet news on TV and in Newspapers – go figure

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/googles-and-parents-role-in-keeping.html

did you mean "violent" rather than "violet"? Assuming that was your intent, I agree that our society seems far to accepting of violence that I would prefer, personally.

On the subject of Vint Cerf, here's a video to a talk on the internet in general he gave in Zurich last month: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Hf0rjtnwC9A (82 minutes, heh)