Vodafone New Zealand Floats Curfew On Adult Shows

Vodafone New Zealand is “proposing to broadcast video clips with restricted content to mobile phones only after a “watershed” time, mirroring the arrangement designed to prevent children viewing adult programmes on TV.” It has suggested amending the a proposed voluntary code of conduct to mirror the free-to-air TV limits which restrict adult content to after 8.30pm on school nights and later on weekends…adult content “could include sex scenes, nudity, violence, and offensive language”. This applies only to streamed content, and Vodafone is hoping it would eliminate the need for age-verification for the content, provided it had already been shown on free-to-air TV. The telco was quick to point out that it’s not looking to stream porn, but rather things like South Park and Maxim TV.

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