Parents Television Council joins Apple in Android Porn Phone

[zerocool84]

Group says that Apple has shown itself to be the champion of chastity

Early this year Apple purged the app store of all that was lude and lascivious, claiming that it was merely bowing to the complaints of parents. Maybe it was halfway right. The Parents Television Council has gone public, claiming that its protest campaign helped spur Apple to action and praising the company's new moral stand.

The PTC says that Apple's decision to block photos of apps based on their parental control settings and remove some apps altogether is a good step. The group's president, Tim Winter, says Apple is definitely rubbing him the right way. He states, "Apple has taken a positive first step towards eliminating kids' access to sexually explicit and pornographic content on its product lineup and we applaud the company’s effort."

However, the PTC has identified a new target: Google's Android operating system. Android is set to pass Microsoft sometime this quarter in the smartphone arena, and will soon be the third largest smartphone OS provider. It has the second biggest app store, after only Apple's 150,000+ apps – the Android Marketplace features over 40,000 apps.

A handful of those apps are pornographic or otherwise deviant in nature. The PTC is vowing to do its best to let Google know that they're being very naughty and to whack the explicit content off the Android Market.

The group is upset that Android OS has no parental controls and hasn't taken steps to remove preview photos or explicit apps like Apple. States PTC's national grassroots director Gavin McKiernan, "We plan to draw attention to other platforms, such as Android, or Verizon's Vcast service, that aren't really doing anything. We definitely want to see progress from some of the other handheld devices."

Steve Jobs, Apple CEO, agrees with the assessment that Android is very, very naughty. He became rather hot and bothered when discussing Android at the iPhone OS 4.0 launch event and accused his competitor of being a "porn phone". His company and users, are much better at keeping their dark, unpure thoughts in check, he feels.

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I just really think this is stupid. Do normal people not realize that any phone with a browser can go on any porn site? This is more than just controlling porn. They control anything they don't like. They don't allow political satire they don't like on the app store (really???) and any other programs that might take some money away from them if it makes the phone more functional as we all know since they've done it on many occasions. Apple is just like communism. You have to break the "Apple law" to do what you want on the phone but if you follow them, do what they say, and don't try to introduce something that does something better than the Apple government, everything is hunky dory. But hey, Apple is getting some support in their chase for chastity. Anything to slander the opposition.

 

[TheWart]

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=18294

I just really think this is stupid. Do normal people not realize that any phone with a browser can go on any porn site? This is more than just controlling porn. They control anything they don't like. They don't allow political satire they don't like on the app store (really???) and any other programs that might take some money away from them if it makes the phone more functional as we all know since they've done it on many occasions. Apple is just like communism. You have to break the "Apple law" to do what you want on the phone but if you follow them, do what they say, and don't try to introduce something that does something better than the Apple government, everything is hunky dory. But hey, Apple is getting some support in their chase for chastity. Anything to slander the opposition.

hmm, the bolded sentence sort of undermines your control rant because as you point out, Apple doesn't try to control what websites you visit.

I was relived when I saw this post as I was worrying that your daily apple rant wasn't going to come out on time.

 

[zerocool84]

hmm, the bolded sentence sort of undermines your control rant because as you point out, Apple doesn't try to control what websites you visit.

I was relived when I saw this post as I was worrying that your daily apple rant wasn't going to come out on time.

I'm sure if they could, they would control it. Apple is all about control. Nothing more. It's much more difficult to block sites on a mobile device than a desktop computer. I'm saying that cus those PTC people think that you can't get porn on an Apple device and you can. They are as uninformed as the general public is about many things.

 

[AstroManLuca]

I would actually like to see parental controls for the Android marketplace. I don't necessarily want sexually explicit apps to be removed, but you should be able to hide them from view. And I'm not even a parent, it's just that I don't want to be harassed by porn apps popping up in my search results. Most porn apps suck anyway.

 

[Bateluer]

I would actually like to see parental controls for the Android marketplace. I don't necessarily want sexually explicit apps to be removed, but you should be able to hide them from view. And I'm not even a parent, it's just that I don't want to be harassed by porn apps popping up in my search results. Most porn apps suck anyway.

What are you searching for? I've never had any explicit app show up in my search results, nor have any of the screen shots or icon images been adult oriented.

That being said, I would like to see a content rating system in Android that would allow more filtering control over applications. Right now, there really isn't any filtering available in Market beyond the generic categories and searching.

And these people are idiots. Regardless of what platform you use, if you want to get adult content, it can be done through a mobile browser. Why someone would want to watch porn on a 3.2in to 4.3in screen is beyond me, but its their phone and their decision.

 

[MJinZ]

Some parents are fucking hilarious. It's as if they've never viewed porn themselves.

 

[JACKDRUID]

some porn site use html5.

Apple iphone is porn phone! ipad is porn tablet! burn it!

 

[AstroManLuca]

What are you searching for? I've never had any explicit app show up in my search results, nor have any of the screen shots or icon images been adult oriented.

That being said, I would like to see a content rating system in Android that would allow more filtering control over applications. Right now, there really isn't any filtering available in Market beyond the generic categories and searching.

And these people are idiots. Regardless of what platform you use, if you want to get adult content, it can be done through a mobile browser. Why someone would want to watch porn on a 3.2in to 4.3in screen is beyond me, but its their phone and their decision.

It hasn't happened to me, but several people have complained about someone uploading apps with the name "Sex Disney" or something. It wasn't cartoon porn, just regular porn, but it came up in searches for Disney.

some porn site use html5.

Apple iphone is porn phone! ipad is porn tablet! burn it!

I remember when some local news station made a big deal about the PSP being able to watch porn because it has a web browser and the ability to view photos and videos. Ridiculous.

 

[theeedude]

Sounds like an ad for Android