New US phone network for Christians to block porn and gender-related content
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New US phone network for Christians to block porn and gender-related content
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Re: New US phone network for Christians to block porn and gender-related content
#2I am glad someone is doing something like this. Very cool to see a free market solution. I do wonder, how will they handle Instagram, Youtube, and X.com, the everything (incl. porn!) app?
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#3That ISPs don’t allow content blocking by subscribers has always surprised me. Workplaces handle it but not homes?
Re: New US phone network for Christians to block porn and gender-related content
#4Interesting. I assumed that cellular providers were common carriers. Who knows under this administration though.
Re: New US phone network for Christians to block porn and gender-related content
#5So, Andrew Tate videos would be blocked for talking about male gender roles? I don’t understand why we are replacing “LGBT Content” with “Gender Content” in formal vocabulary.
Re: New US phone network for Christians to block porn and gender-related content
#6I am glad someone is doing something like this. Very cool to see a free market solution. I do wonder, how will they handle Instagram, Youtube, and X.com, the everything (incl. porn!) app?
>I am glad someone is doing something like this.
Looked into the profile of the guy doing this and there isn't anything remotely "Christian" about him, he's just your average sleazy media exec trying to milk a specific demographic of gullible customers. He even admits it himself. So he's the last person in the world I'd trust to deliver something "Christian" for Christians.
Similar how the dating app Christian Mingle isn't owned or run by Christians, which should be your first alarm bell in case you were looking for such a thing.
Re: New US phone network for Christians to block porn and gender-related content
#7Seems pretty high effort compared to a content blocker mobile app or native parental controls.
I'm not sure why anyone would get this.
Re: New US phone network for Christians to block porn and gender-related content
#8This is such an extreme thing to do, there must be a better way.
Why can't religion coexist alongside societal progress? From my (limited) understanding of the Bible, as it was translated and translated over the years to our common, modern languages a lot of it has been adjusted, and these adjustments don't align with the original text. Perhaps it needs to be changed further.
I would love for people to have a religion to believe in, which does fulfill them without going against current and future societal values and norms.
Re: New US phone network for Christians to block porn and gender-related content
#9That ISPs don’t allow content blocking by subscribers has always surprised me. Workplaces handle it but not homes?
> That ISPs don’t allow content blocking by subscribers has always surprised me.
Some UK providers do[0]
[0] https://www.broadband.co.uk/broadband/help/parental-controls...
Re: New US phone network for Christians to block porn and gender-related content
#10I am glad someone is doing something like this. Very cool to see a free market solution. I do wonder, how will they handle Instagram, Youtube, and X.com, the everything (incl. porn!) app?
>I am glad someone is doing something like this. Looked into the profile of the guy doing this and there isn't anything remotely "Christian" about him, he's just your average sleazy media exec trying to milk a specific demographic of gullible customers. He even admits it himself. So he's the last person in the world I'd trust to deliver something "Christian" for Christians. Similar how the dating app Christian Mingle…
I have to admit, my first somewhat sarcastic thought was what they will do about content involving murder, adultery, theft, not honoring your mother and father, etc.