Porn on the Go
Cingular may have opened a Pandora's Box recently by launching filtering devices and password-enabled blockers for mobile adult content. Presumably, the absence of these types of controls has kept mobile porn from taking off here in the US. Globally, mobile porn sales hit $1 billion in 2005. There is little doubt there is a market for it. Already, content providers are lining up to give it to consumers raw (sorry couldn't help it). In late January, the first Mobile Adult Content Congress trade show will take place in Miami. Already, people are getting aroused, I mean, excited, I mean, enthusiastic.
Of course, this begs the question should mobile content be regulated, especially given the fact that kids are acquiring cell phones at younger and younger ages. If so, who does the regulating? Even given content ratings and parental controls, family groups say most parents don't monitor what their children download and they definitely don't know what other kids will do. Little Jimmy going over Cindy's house to watch Toy Story may have a completely different meaning in a few years. And here I thought, I just wanted to make a phone call while away from my house. Guess I was mistaken.
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