Macquarie Bank Company To Edit UK Mobile Porn

This story is interesting for the fact that it is a story. “Red Bee Media, a former arm of the BBC now owned by Macquarie Capital Alliance Group, is advertising in the UK for someone to work on a contract tailoring R-rated content for delivery through mobile phones….A spokeswoman for Macquarie Bank in London said the pornographic content would be handled by just one person on a temporary basis in a company that employed 1,400 staff.”
It’s a small contract, but because Red Bee used to be part of the staid old BBC and still does some work it’s apparently raising eyebrows in Britain. So why are Australian papers reporting on it? Red Bee may now be owned by the Macquarie Bank, but it’s a tenuous link…certainly not worthy of the heading “Australian company in BBC porn link“. Right or wrong, companies have to be careful of even the most casual brushes with adult content, which explains the reluctance of certain entities…

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