Google Forced to Filter Porn from Android Market?

[ravewulf]

I'm all for parental controls, but if they do another "Sweep of Death" for adult and adult-related apps I will be seriously pissed!

 

[SlickyFats]

Here's an idea: HEY PARENTS QUIT BUYING YOUR KIDS CELL PHONES WITH INTERNET CAPABILITIES!!!!

 

[ravewulf]

[citation][nom]killerclick[/nom]Porn should be banned altogether. It exploits and degrades women and is an affront to God![/citation]
1. I'm an atheist, your God is of no concern to me (and everyone else has a different interpretation of your God, or a different God altogether).

2. I'm gay, there are no women in my porn (although they might be having fun watching as part of the camera crew. "Gay sex is HOT" - Grace Adler, from Will & Grace)

3. If it's consensual, your point doesn't matter in the first place

 

[endoftheline2]

Parental controls on the App Store will do about nothing to stop people from getting porn on mobile devices.

This organization is talking about keeping porn away from kids...
Do they not understand that smart phones can access most of the ENTIRE INTERNET, where there is way more porn accessible than in some random porn apps in the app store.

Sure google could added some rating system or add parental controls to the app store, but Its not going to stop minors from searching the internet for porn on the mobile device at all....

Also these kids who have a smart phone with android, I'm sure they will have access to a computer with the Internet as well...

This concept that filter the App will stop minors from accessing porn on the devices makes no sense

 

[belardo]

Nor has he ever said he "created the internet".

 

[Lan]

[citation][nom]hellwig[/nom]Who the F*CK buys porn apps? Jesus christ the internet is full of free porn, why do you need an app? I want to make a commercial showing some kid browsing millions of porn pages on the iPhone's Safari browser and stating something like "wow, this really is the real internet, thanks Apple!".Ok, so maybe Google should have an option to prevent installing apps so they can lock-out their kids. Of course, maybe parents shouldn't buy their kids smart-phones. Kids only need phones for 1 reason, to call home and be available to be called by the parents. Give you kid a phone that is capable of anything else and you have only yourself to blame, not Google or Apple.p.s. How many free porn apps are there on the Android Market place? I know my phone wouldn't let me buy any apps until I updated by Google Shopping account with a credit card. So seriously, who attaches a credit card to their childs Google Shopping account, then blames Google when their kid buys porn with the credit card they gave them free-reign too?Christ, if I see another article where irresponsible parents blame some corporation for not raising their child right, I'm gonna run around town with a broken microwave mass-sterilizing people. If you can't raise your own child right, you should lose your parental rights. No one else should be responsible for the fact that you got drunk and forgot to wear a condom one night 15 years ago.[/citation]

Couldn't have said it better. +1

 

[maestintaolius]

[citation][nom]killerclick[/nom]Porn should be banned altogether. It exploits and degrades women and is an affront to God![/citation]
Likewise, I feel the Bible should be banned as it is an affront to my beliefs. Or, maybe, you should just learn to accept the fact that not everyone views the world the same way you do (in fact, most of them don't on a world-wide scale) and tolerate/ignore it.

 

[andyman30]

I think that if the parents council spent more time parenting and less time fighting over the porn issue, than their kids wouldnt be trying to sneak everything behind their backs. If somebody is determined enough, they can get anything. Look at China for example, getting around the google firewall. Anything is possible if you try hard enough, this council should stop fighting the unwinnable battle

 

[ipp]

In Europe they would not bother. They hate children.

 

[Maxor127]

Why 90% of the comments idiotic? Read the f'ing article and get some common sense. You complain about shit like this, when you're the ones who make me worry about the direction of humanity when people don't have any basic reading comprehension skills or the ability to make a rational argument.

 

[bustapr]

[citation][nom]TommySch[/nom]Buy porn?! Like in pay for porn on the internet... ROFL that would be a novelty.On a more serious note, where do we sign up to DDoS the sh*t out of that organization?[/citation]
LOL, I was referring to the Apple Store porn app ban. The PTC was responsible for the ban, where the council wanted to protect the kids from buying porn apps and burning their little virgin eyes.

 

[brando56894]

Thes people need to get their heads out of their asses, if a kid really wants to look at porn he'll find a way. Stop blaming the companies and start blaming yourselves!

For christ sake, when I was 12 and my parents put parental controls on my AOL account I installed a keylogger so I could get their password and change my account back!

 

[bustapr]

[citation][nom]Belardo[/nom]The internet is for porn...The internet is for porn...... so grab your dick and double click forPORN!! P O R N!!! P O R N!!video: http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpdCJKPHzh8[/citation]
That video officially has a place in my top 10 youtube videos ever!!! LOL, "THE INTERNET IS FOR POOOOORN!"

 

[jecastej]

I see it better now, If The Parents TV Council have "this kind of power" and they could put enough pressure on big companies it may be because they represent some reasonable potential buyers and they may have laws supporting what they are trying to stop. I thought it was just an Apple moralist decision.

On the other hand how manny adults are not going to buy an Android phone because of this? haha. Something like parents making pressure vs an adult content market. Companies may end up making Android phones adult restricted "R". Oh!!

Anyway, are mobile devices harder to control for parents than laptops? Or is this a kind of "new opinion" inside this organization something being debated more and more that is showing their presence these days? I mean, have being manny parents concerned for long with distribution of porn and they now want actively to regain the control they think they lost?

 

[CptTripps]

[citation][nom]invlem[/nom]Got to love these groups in america. You can have all the violent content (movies like Saw for instance) but you want to show a bit of skin and its the end of the world.How backwards is that? Killing people = GOOD, Naked people = BAD[/citation]

Oh come on, we are not talking skinemax here. A little nudity is one thing and can be appreciated as beautiful, last thing a virgin teen needs to see is 7 old men gang bang a "just 18yo" while slapping her in the face and calling her a whore, that is something completely different. It is getting harder and harder to find porn that doesn't make me want to throw up a little.

On the other hand, I'm not for censorship and think...

1) Parents shouldn't buy smart phones for kids, get one that texts and calls home/911.
2) Any smartphone OS should indeed include parental controls.

 

[Sekondary]

Honestly, who is buying their 8yr old a cell phone, let alone a really expensive Android phone?

 

[banthracis]

[citation][nom]Sekondary[/nom]Honestly, who is buying their 8yr old a cell phone, let alone a really expensive Android phone?[/citation]

Actually go to any random middle school in NYC and about half the 10 year olds have smart phones, most of them with iphones...

And yes, this includes the inner city schools. How parents living on welfare and food stamps afford to buy their 10 yr old kids iphones boggles the mind.

 

[Guest]

WTF one of the main reasons to buy a droid phone over an iphone is that google doesn't control how the phone is used or the app market. Google don't give in, parents have the option of giving their kids the iphone.

 

[Camikazi]

[citation][nom]killerclick[/nom]Porn should be banned altogether. It exploits and degrades women and is an affront to God![/citation]
Who cares about god, give me porn anyday, I know what porn does for me that big invisible guy hasn't done anything at all

 

[pojih]

blah blah blah

Don't buy them a phone that can access porn (i.e a smartphone, or any other internet enabled phone)

I use my smartphone for e-mail for work and school. WTF does a 16 year old kid need internet for on their phone?