Picturephoning has linked to a story about Cingular launching filtering devices and password-enabled blockers that “help thwart underage consumers from buying adult content”. This is not being reported as an attempt to protect kids but rather as the first step to putting adult content on Cingular’s deck…which is probably a very accurate reading of the situation.
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