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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

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Happy to have the market solve a problem, providing an opt-in solution for people who want it. Somehow porn doesn't show up in my web-browsing either, funny how that works.

actually sometimes you're in a normal website and there is an porn ad at the bottom.

That's never happened to me in nearly 40 yrs of web browsing

Re: New US phone network for Christians to block porn and gender-related content

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This 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 religio…

There are plenty of progressive Christians who remember that Jesus’s most important command was to love your neighbor. The better question is, why are these fundamentalists so successful at co-opting the word “Christian”? Why does “Christian phone network” mean one that blocks homosexual content rather than one that donates 10% of revenue to feed the poor?

Because the MIT Technology Review would not, upon hearing about a phone network that donates 10% of revenue to feed the poor, contact T-Mobile and request comment on whether such donations from a bandwidth reseller "violate any of its policies". Everyone agrees that you should be allowed to be charitable if you'd like. So there's no polarization pressure in that direction; Christians who want their phone network to be more charitable simply pressure their existing network.

Re: New US phone network for Christians to block porn and gender-related content

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Sure but in the case of this article, seems like it doesn’t affect anyone else but the consumers of this product.

And no one is stopping them. But they don't have the right not to be ridiculed, and I suspect a lot of people ridiculing them are fellow Christians. It's not as if anyone is going to chain them by their ankles to the back of a truck and drag them to death for being straight over it.

>But they don't have the right not to be ridiculed

Are we allowed to ridicule the things Jews and Muslims do to segregate themselves from western society, or just Christians?

Re: New US phone network for Christians to block porn and gender-related content

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To fill the gap left by all the sites being blocked, the company intends to offer access to a library of religious content, including AI-generated Bible videos. Truly a serious and spiritual company. Maybe you can chat with AI Jesus instead of going to PornHub.

That AI Jesus chatbot will surely not sell your data to the website's 1156 partners.

Re: New US phone network for Christians to block porn and gender-related content

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Because they won't leave others alone in peace. Because they work to enshrine their religious dogma into law and enforce it with violence.

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Christian values have nothing to do with low crime rates, high standards of living, and scientific achievements. Just look at the Philippines. A country way more Christian than any European country or the United States. There is high levels of crime in some areas, very poor standards of living in most of the country, and almost no scientific achievements compared to the west.

The main difference is cultural. In the Philippines we have a culture where people give their resources to past generations rather than saving and investing for the future. Then when parents die you're left with nothing and now your kids have to provide for you or you starve to death. Its a never ending cycle unless you're lucky enough to have parents that refuse you provide for them.

This cultural practice, which is not unique to the Philippines, leads to poverty which leads to low standards of living, crime, and lagging scientific achievement and innovation.

Re: New US phone network for Christians to block porn and gender-related content

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Many people don't agree with the current and future societal values and norms. Why can't people be left alone in peace?

Because they won't leave others alone in peace. Because they work to enshrine their religious dogma into law and enforce it with violence.

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Re: New US phone network for Christians to block porn and gender-related content

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Because they won't leave others alone in peace. Because they work to enshrine their religious dogma into law and enforce it with violence.

Sure but in the case of this article, seems like it doesn’t affect anyone else but the consumers of this product.

If you don't think MAGA parents wouldn't force this on their children, you need to look up the history of MAGA and MAGA-types

Helicopter parenting is at an all time high. The same parents are loading Life360 onto their kids' phones and expecting them to keep it installed after turning 18.

Re: New US phone network for Christians to block porn and gender-related content

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And no one is stopping them. But they don't have the right not to be ridiculed, and I suspect a lot of people ridiculing them are fellow Christians. It's not as if anyone is going to chain them by their ankles to the back of a truck and drag them to death for being straight over it.

>But they don't have the right not to be ridiculed Are we allowed to ridicule the things Jews and Muslims do to segregate themselves from western society, or just Christians?

The right to ridicule all religion is important. Just like the right to ridicule anti-religion is also important.

Re: New US phone network for Christians to block porn and gender-related content

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Happy to have the market solve a problem, providing an opt-in solution for people who want it. Somehow porn doesn't show up in my web-browsing either, funny how that works.

Given the way things have been lately, sometime before 2027 comes we'll see a push to make things like this the default, requiring explicit opt-out (which then potentially adds your name to a list)
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