Japanese carriers have offered services restricting access to adult content for years, but apparently less than half of the adults in the country knew they existed. So the carriers (DoCoMo, KDDI and Softbank) have introduced checkboxes onto the contract forms for new services asking whether the adult signing the contract wants the filtering service, reports Mainichi Daily News. It’s an important move for the carriers to be seen offering the services, since last year the National Police Agency (in September) and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (in November) asked the three telcos to offer the filtering services, despite KDDI and Softbank offering them since 2003.
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