Google Forced to Filter Porn from Android Market?

When are they going after Al Gore and the INTERNET???

What a bunch of assholes for being bad parents blaming others for what their children are downloading/watching/playing/f**king/etc/etc.

Ohhhhhhh Nooooooo more censoreship. RUNNNNNNNN ........ Holy crap they want all of our liberties.

PTC motto: "We blame God for providing goats for our farm boys"

Then why aren't they blamed for not censoring porn in Chrome ?

Who the F*CK buys porn apps? Jesus christ the internet is full of free porn, why do you need an app? I want to make a commercial showing some kid browsing millions of porn pages on the iPhone's Safari browser and stating something like "wow, this really is the real internet, thanks Apple!".

Ok, so maybe Google should have an option to prevent installing apps so they can lock-out their kids. Of course, maybe parents shouldn't buy their kids smart-phones. Kids only need phones for 1 reason, to call home and be available to be called by the parents. Give you kid a phone that is capable of anything else and you have only yourself to blame, not Google or Apple.

p.s. How many free porn apps are there on the Android Market place? I know my phone wouldn't let me buy any apps until I updated by Google Shopping account with a credit card. So seriously, who attaches a credit card to their childs Google Shopping account, then blames Google when their kid buys porn with the credit card they gave them free-reign too?

Christ, if I see another article where irresponsible parents blame some corporation for not raising their child right, I'm gonna run around town with a broken microwave mass-sterilizing people. If you can't raise your own child right, you should lose your parental rights. No one else should be responsible for the fact that you got drunk and forgot to wear a condom one night 15 years ago.

Hey leave my porn alone! I was going to get the HTC Incredible but I don't want to have parental control :x

How about giving your children basic phones instead, then they can't access it! Thats like saying cable TV should not show nudity because my 14 year old has a Plasma in his room with HBO! don't make the world raise your kids, raise them yourself! And tell your kids to watch out because mine bites (he is 1).

ok so now because they can access porn from their phone it could become a legal issue?
WTF???

that means that me having a computer is a legal issue... who says I can't access porn? All I have to do is a quick google search...

Android is going to take it in the ASS!

I, for one, am glad we have these groups out there policing these evil companies that expose our innocent children to porn! It's far too much bother to actually be involved in active parenting and it cuts into my Lost viewing time. Now, if only these companies would police thought crime too I could sleep easily at night.

You can install any porn app you want on Windows Mobile. It's a side effect of allowing apps to install on the phone that aren't vetted. And they better not change that, or there will be some pissed off people.

lost lol..parents really are bad if they still watch that shit

so the PC is ok, but lets go after mobile phones? Once again this is the dumbest thing I have ever heard of. You would have to kill USB connections you would have to restrain the browser, which BTW is still open on the Iphone, and lets not forget MMS and email in which both can receive video and pics.

well thought out. well thought out indeed.

This just goes to show Android is still an immature product; they should have parental controls from the get go. Any modern operating system like Windows 7 has it, so why shouldn't the mobile versions have it ?

I don't agree with Apple's philsophy of banning certain legal content from the App store, but nobody is obliged to buy that product.

However I do agree that some form of parental control should be implemented, just like it is already done on the desktop.

It is that simple; as for adults they should have free acess to whatever they want, as long as it's legal.

Maybe its just me, but why are parents giving cell phones to kids? i really see no reason to have a cell phone until you are able to drive, since that gives you so much more independence. By that time 16 year olds really shouldnt be "corrupted" by seeing naked ppl. hell my high school had 3 or 4 girls with kids on the way at age 16, I'm sure that's a small number compared to some other schools.

Don't give cell phones to 8 year olds. problem solved.

"Google currently does not offer any type of parenting control for Android-based devices."

I just get a kick out of all these people trying to find ways that parents don't have to parent.

As a parent of two kids (now 20 and 16) and having grown up with computers since acoustic 30 baud days I don't think computers/phones need to block access to this stuff.

Parents need to teach their kids what's acceptable while they are the responsibility of the parent/s and if they don't follow the rules, take their stuff away from them as a punishment.

Oh, but that means that these lasy parents will actually have to pay attention to their kids and spend time with them too.

This is definitely not good...the Steve Jobs infection is spreading and his minions are lurking around touching everything...eew.
What..first he brainwashes everyone int believing that the latest invention (folders and multitasking) for the iPhone and their iPad (*refuses to add word to dictionary*) are the mark of another REVOLUTIONARY idea...someone has to stop.
In the mean time, grab your androids and run....

Meh...who pays (or would) for porn anyway?????

"This could be problematic for parents who purchased an Android-based smartphone for their children..."

Simple: don't purchase an Android-based smartphone for your children.

Parents Television Council

Great, so the same people who ruined TV are setting their sights on phones now. Next month, they will go after libraries for having copies of Farenheight 451...

If you want your kid to have a phone for emergencies, fine. I'm sure all the major cellular providers can get you set up with one of their inexpensive flip phones that can only call home and 911. There. I solved the problem by utilizing equipment and services already available and in use by the companies. Where is my check for saving people time and money. Though I hear protesting with picket signs is great exercise...

I couldn't legally buy pornography when I was kid. I had no computer, smart-phone, internet, etc. by which I could get porn. The kicker is: I STILL GOT IT! Even if you abolish all digital pornography from the globe, there is still that kid down the street who lets his friends see his dad's playboy collection for a buck. Don't these people remember puberty?

Got to love these groups in america. You can have all the violent content (movies like Saw for instance) but you want to show a bit of skin and its the end of the world.

How backwards is that?
Killing people = GOOD, Naked people = BAD

Dear parents,
If your children are underage, why do you by a smart phone for them instead of just a phone? It's your problem, not Google.

Whoever works in that PTC, he has no clue what is modern smartphone capable of. It's just stupid.

I've got this great idea! Why don't we buy kids pay as you go phones. They would have a certain amount of time/credits per time period. Any overages during that time period needs a damn good explanation or a "dark" period where the phone doesn't work because it's out of time. It's like they learn to be responsible or not, totally up to them.

1. Kids arent supposed to buy porn on the net. The only way they can is if they steal a credit card or theirr parents happily give them theyre card info. So, parents society, its majorly youre fault.

2. Why would a kid have a smart phone? Youre kid doesnt need a smart phone to talk with his friends! Its the parents fault again, because they waste more money on an expensive phone with an expensive plan so that theyre kids can have internet access and become facebook zombies. "Hello parents, youre little boy is locked in his room with his new phone you bought him, and why does he get scared every time someone knocks on the door?!".

PARENTS TELEVISION COUNCIL, its a lot better if you make ads for parents to watch their kids more intently so that kids dont burn those holy virgin eyes. By enforcing google to do this you are affecting the world...not that anyone needs porn, but its still exactly like becoming China.

... Are the PTC members Chinese by any chance???

The Parents Television Council(PTC) is not a government agency and it has no authority to invoke regulations on any entity(person or business). As such, they have no power to force anyone to do anything. Perhaps the article writer should focus more on fact and truth and not sensationalism. It does not help in conveying any type of point.

While I have no personal interest in having access to pornography on a mobile device, I am in no position to tell someone else that they cannot have access to it. Pornography, for better or worse, is an expression of free speech and no one has the right, in the United States or any outside force aimed towards the United States, to squelch free speech. This is a foundation that we fought for when claiming our status as a free and separate nation and it is high time that people start respecting it.

I certainly do not want my children, or any children, to have to witness someone getting their jollies in public, but we certainly do not need more "protecting the children" legislation. Any reasonable person, even those that consume pornographic material, knows when it is and is not appropriate to enjoy such material. Otherwise, there are laws on the books to deal with people that make a public spectacle of viewing pornography.

The PTC also needs to understand that no technological boundaries will ever stop minors from viewing pornography. Sure, the PTC and other groups can pride and boast themselves as champions and masters of the universe for getting stupid "age checks" on pornographic websites, but scores of minors are visiting those sites daily. These same children are also engaging in sexual activity, but this is all due to bad parenting.

Perhaps these groups should focus on bad parents and/or just deal with the fact that minors of a certain age(early teenage years and on) will always be curious about their bodies and blooming sexuality and no amount of legislation will ever stop that. If pornography did not exist, then something else would in its place.

Deal with it or make room for those that can.

Porn should be banned altogether. It exploits and degrades women and is an affront to God!