Blaming 3G for porn
December 28, 2005The good Philippine Congressman Joseph Santiago is at it again. He blamed broadband for porn proliferation. Now he’s worried that 3G (third-generation mobile technology) will bring about more porn, this time over the mobile networks.
The advance of broadband or high-speed Internet access, coupled with the coming of 3G mobile telecommunications technology, will surely open the floodgates to the cell phone delivery of pornography.
Dude, you must accept the fact that whenever you have access to a web-enabled computer or mobile terminal, you are sure to be able to access porn if you wanted to.
But I agree that it’s good to have a content-rating system.
The lawmaker suggested that NTC adopt a content-rating systems for audio and video materials delivered over cell phones. “Either this or mobile telephone operators themselves initiate their own content-rating systems,” he added.
But–yes, another but–even if you had content-rating systems for the content delivered by the telcos, you would need to have mobile phone support for such to work. And I doubt that Philippine laws can influence, much less force, the mobile phone producers to implement this across their mobile offerings. And still, if you have open WAP access with any compatible mobile, you can just go over to wap.google.com, key in some porn-related keywords, and voila, you’ve got porn!
