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TOPIC: UK: Smartphones automatically block Pink News and other LGBT news sites

UK: Smartphones automatically block Pink News and other LGBT news sites 18 Jan 2013 13:37 #1

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Several mobile phone providers have blocked Pink News and other LGBT interest websites as part of the automatic settings that are programmed into smartphones.

The Telegraph reports that mobile providers are blocking websites that deal with issues such as LGBT rights, feminism, and political satire as “mature content”, even if the websites do not contain any nudity, pornography, or offensive material.

www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/01/18/uk-smartph...her-lgbt-news-sites/
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UK: Smartphones automatically block Pink News and other LGBT news sites 18 Jan 2013 13:55 #2

And there was me thinking that the world was getting less homophobic and more tolerant... :(
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UK: Smartphones automatically block Pink News and other LGBT news sites 18 Jan 2013 14:10 #3

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It's the 'political satire' bit that intrigues me the most. Just think of the possibilities!

Oh...I cannot wait until everything I 'own' is stored on the cloud.
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UK: Smartphones automatically block Pink News and other LGBT news sites 18 Jan 2013 14:11 #4

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Pink News reported that T-Mobile had been accused of blocking gay websites. Readers then flagged O2, 3, Virgin and Vodafone as also blocking access to sites.

What gives these fuckers the right to do this? I don't understand?
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UK: Smartphones automatically block Pink News and other LGBT news sites 18 Jan 2013 14:13 #5

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Why are people still so narrowed minded about other peoples sexuality?
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UK: Smartphones automatically block Pink News and other LGBT news sites 18 Jan 2013 14:15 #6

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psketti wrote:
Pink News reported that T-Mobile had been accused of blocking gay websites. Readers then flagged O2, 3, Virgin and Vodafone as also blocking access to sites.

What gives these fuckers the right to do this? I don't understand?

I think it has something to do with a blanket block on words like "gay", "transgender" etc. in that they may be linked to porn/adult sites. But then, just about any other words, including "baked beans" could you land you at a porn site (try it!).

It's bollocks anyway. You know the agenda so am guessing your q was rhetorical.
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One O2 customer has claimed that even with age verification, the service redirects from gay related websites including PinkNews.co.uk, while allowing access to heterosexual pornography.

www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/09/03/t-mobile-c...ing-of-gay-websites/
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jhado wrote:
Why are people still so narrowed minded about other peoples sexuality?

Because they don't want any of this...

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Just lot's of this...

Conform
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UK: Smartphones automatically block Pink News and other LGBT news sites 18 Jan 2013 14:23 #9

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psketti wrote:
jhado wrote:
Why are people still so narrowed minded about other peoples sexuality?

Because they don't want any of this...

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Just lot's of this...

Conform

Yeah, well I know which I prefer.
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UK: Smartphones automatically block Pink News and other LGBT news sites 18 Jan 2013 16:52 #10

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Why are media making such a big number about gaypeople anyway? It's either con or pro, but a HUGE number is been made out of it... Goddammit, I know few gays, they're quite hush hush about their interests, not hiding it but not shouting to the world, 'LOOK HOW GAY I AM!!!' That's how it looks like, somebody wants a controversy here... Gays shouting about their gayness and homophobics shouting how gays are so fucken scary and dangerous to our white straight NAN aryan culture.

Stupid shit... Gay people have been existing as long as there has been people around, nothing wrong with them.. Fuck all that stupid anti and pro gay talks and stupid service providers for blocking stuff.

Hah, I think I'll tell about this thread to our bassist, he's gay.. Really cool bloke too! :rofl: :pink::
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UK: Smartphones automatically block Pink News and other LGBT news sites 18 Jan 2013 18:35 #11

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Hexhammer wrote:

Hah, I think I'll tell about this thread to our bassist, he's gay.. Really cool bloke too! :rofl: :pink::

You have photo for Absy, yes? :norty:
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UK: Smartphones automatically block Pink News and other LGBT news sites 18 Jan 2013 18:44 #12

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Ab Origine wrote:
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Hah, I think I'll tell about this thread to our bassist, he's gay.. Really cool bloke too! :rofl: :pink::

You have photo for Absy, yes? :norty:

Oh jeez, Abs, in how many threads you're gonna say this? hehe... There's some our bands promopics somewhere around the net.. Damn. Can't rember where those are at. You like long haired twentysomething aged metalheads? I'm not sure if you do, I always had a feeling you got some taste about the guys you hang out with. :roll:

Jeez, this is getting so gay it's completely oftopic. Hei, do we have a thread for the gay stuff so Abs and I can talk about my bandmates.. :killinme:
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UK: Smartphones automatically block Pink News and other LGBT news sites 18 Jan 2013 19:45 #13

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UK: Smartphones automatically block Pink News and other LGBT news sites 18 Jan 2013 19:48 #14

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I read this and first felt :noway:
then quickly :hedbut:
and then :dunno:
and then :(
and now I feel :hug: for Abs and allLGBT folks.

I think I just went through a form of grief.
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UK: Smartphones automatically block Pink News and other LGBT news sites 18 Jan 2013 19:51 #15

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mikey mikey wrote:
I read this and first felt :noway:
then quickly :hedbut:
and then :dunno:
and then :(
and now I feel :hug: for Abs and allLGBT folks.

I think I just went through a form of grief.

Aww, don't sweat it mate. Some of us quite like it...gives us something to winge about. ;)
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UK: Smartphones automatically block Pink News and other LGBT news sites 18 Jan 2013 20:10 #16

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Thanks Abs. People like her aren't worthy of your good nature.

To be frank; it's just not on.

Spouting that crap has consequences: real ones that hurt people.

I feel this deeply into the core of my deepest beliefs and it drew up this:

What goes into a man's mouth does not make him 'unclean,' but what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him 'unclean.'"[/ii]
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UK: Smartphones automatically block Pink News and other LGBT news sites 18 Jan 2013 20:17 #17

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Ab Origine wrote:
Several mobile phone providers have blocked Pink News and other LGBT interest websites as part of the automatic settings that are programmed into smartphones.

The Telegraph reports that mobile providers are blocking websites that deal with issues such as LGBT rights, feminism, and political satire as “mature content”, even if the websites do not contain any nudity, pornography, or offensive material.

www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/01/18/uk-smartph...her-lgbt-news-sites/

Ab's I just clicked on your link with my smartphone and got on no problem. (I live in :usa: )

psketti can i make a comment about freedom of speech under the rule of Sceptre? (im on thin ice)

Who gave T-Mobile the right to censor in :uk: ?
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UK: Smartphones automatically block Pink News and other LGBT news sites 18 Jan 2013 20:23 #18

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It's the royal scepter no doubt. Yay America. If only the rest of the world wasn't the paradise of free speech that you live in.

Go you.
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mikey mikey wrote:
It's the royal scepter no doubt.

Who else has the power to censor T-Mobile over there?
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It's the royal scepter no doubt.

Who else has the power to censor T-Mobile over there?

T-mobile.
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