Porn banned from mobile phones - Breaking - Technology - theage.com.au
June 30th, 2005 | by amarfresh |The Australian government has a few concerns regarding adult content on mobile phones.
The Government’s communications regulator has banned hard-core pornography from mobile phones.
Phone companies will not be allowed to broadcast content that is rated X18+ or refused classification. The rules affect SMS, picture and video services.
Phone companies will also be forced to check the age of customers before making less offensive adult content (MA15+ or R18+) available.
The Australian government must be well aware of the numbers of children who have mobile phones. Not to mention that the younglings represent a large segment of mobile content consumers.
While restricting children’s access to adult material is the socially responsible thing to do, pornographers in Australia can’t be happy with their government’s complete censorship ban of hard-core, X-rated content on the mobile networks. Aussies will simply need to settle for the soft-core. (sigh) I’m sure we won’t have that “problem” here in the US.