Japan is one of the countries looking to filter the mobile internet “for the sake of the children”, and Infinita has some details of the proposed regulations: “As well as typical adult content like gambling and inappropriate flesh it will also block access to “anything that enables communications between users, such as the ultra-popular gaming and social networking site mobagetown and the mobile versions of mixi, bulletin boards like 2ch.net and dating sites”. DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM) and KDDI have set the age limit at 20 (the
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