This seems more like hype than anything useful…Norway’s Telenor Mobile has introduced a blacklist-based filter designed to limit mobile users’ access to child pornography Internet sites. The filter is on their servers rather than individual handsets.
However, I’m reasonably sure those sites change on a regular basis as authorities shut them down so a blacklist isn’t much use, and I’ve always had the impression that mobile phones don’t offer the anonymity that the internet does and therefore are less appealing for such activities — maybe I’m wrong.
On the other hand filtering the sites won’t do any harm and may mean “less money to the people responsible for such sites” in the words of Berit Kjoll, Telenor’s head of consumer markets, so on that basis this is a good thing to introduce. It’s also a fairly logical extension of the filters Telenor already has on its internet servers.
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