Cell Phones Adopt Ratings for Content
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The cell phone industry is adopting a rating system for its multimedia services to designate which music, video and gaming products are intended for adults and provide tools for parents to block access to that content.
The ratings and parental tools would not, however, stop youths from using the wireless Internet connections on their mobile phones from accessing public Web sites that feature content and products involving sex, profanity and violence.
The ratings and parental tools would not, however, stop youths from using the wireless Internet connections on their mobile phones from accessing public Web sites that feature content and products involving sex, profanity and violence.
So what's the point? You think watching a video girl getting nekkid is more likely to turn your son into a rapist than ogling flesh and blood girls on the interwebs? It just seems like lately so many of our regulations are coming from this twisted, pointless, place where the bark is worse than the bite. I realize that this is being instituted privately and as such is probably meant as more of a selling tool than anything, but still.
