Google makes it official: no porn apps for Chromecast

It'll be interesting to see if they stick to this globally.

The distinctly American prudishness regarding sex is almost a mirror image of large parts of the world with respect to cinematic violence. It's part of why you can be so sure these west coast companies will never monopolise the market in Germany, for example.

I guess this is kind of nice because I won't have to worry about people connecting to my 's open or poorly secured WiFi and start playing porn as a joke.

But you can still stream a Chrome tab, so... maybe they are not really preventing anything except good audio sync.

"No nudity" is a lot more strict than just "no porn". Does that mean that, for example, you could not make a Flickr app that lets you slideshow your photostream on your TV because Flickr allows artistic nudity? Or could you, but you'd have to restrict it to only show photos that are marked as 'Safe' in the safety filter? What about similar sites that don't have multiple content safety categories?

Or what if you had an app that guided folks through self-exams for testicular or breast cancer?

Looks like Google just lost a large percentage of the entertainment market:

- The large percentage of people who like porn, plus...

- The smaller (but outspoken) percentage of people who don't like to be told what content they're allowed to watch on the devices that they've purchased.

We'll see if the market segment they're trying to attract with this policy (families with children, if I had to guess) will make up for this loss.