First, Apple. Now, Walmart. Porn gets no tech respect.
Summary: As expected, Walmart is pulling the plug on an adult video channel built into Vudu, a company it acquired this week.
When Walmart announced earlier this week that it was acquiring Vudu, a Silicon Valley startup in the business of delivering streaming movies to TV sets, I wondered what might happen to the adult movie channel built into the Vudu service.
It didn't take long for Walmart to let us know. They're pulling the plug on porn.
A post on Techcrunch has the memo that Walmart has sent out to Vudu's "After-Dark" partners. The memo is all business, no morals.
Still, it's kind of ironic how Walmart and Apple, which has gone PG-13 in its app store, are becoming the gatekeepers of what's appropriate and what's not for our online experiences. Apparently, bikini babes on a mobile phone is taboo - as is streaming adult films on the TV.
Mind you, I'm not saying one way or the other what's right or wrong here. I have children and, just like any parent, I want to shield them from as much inappropriate content as possible, whether it's bad language, extreme violence or even the extra-long Girls Gone Wild commercials that are aired on Comedy Central.
I'm no prude, so I'm not necessarily offended by this sort of stuff. And my understanding was that Vudu had some strict locks in place to make sure that kids weren't accidentally accessing it after school. Someday, my kids will be able to turn their own moral filters on and off - once they're old enough to make decisions for themselves. Until then, that's my job - and Vudu put tools in place for parents to do maintain control of it.
In the meantime, it's back to the dark alleys of the Internet for the connoisseurs of online adult content. You surely won't be finding it in the online aisles of Walmart or the Apple app store.
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A post on Techcrunch has the memo that Walmart has sent out to Vudu's "After-Dark" partners. The memo is all business, no morals.
Still, it's kind of ironic how Walmart and Apple, which has gone PG-13 in its app store, are becoming the gatekeepers of what's appropriate and what's not for our online experiences. Apparently, bikini babes on a mobile phone is taboo - as is streaming adult films on the TV.
Mind you, I'm not saying one way or the other what's right or wrong here. I have children and, just like any parent, I want to shield them from as much inappropriate content as possible, whether it's bad language, extreme violence or even the extra-long Girls Gone Wild commercials that are aired on Comedy Central.
I'm no prude, so I'm not necessarily offended by this sort of stuff. And my understanding was that Vudu had some strict locks in place to make sure that kids weren't accidentally accessing it after school. Someday, my kids will be able to turn their own moral filters on and off - once they're old enough to make decisions for themselves. Until then, that's my job - and Vudu put tools in place for parents to do maintain control of it.
In the meantime, it's back to the dark alleys of the Internet for the connoisseurs of online adult content. You surely won't be finding it in the online aisles of Walmart or the Apple app store.
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Porn = playing with fire...
Ha.
Its like porn, try it, you might like it next thing you know your doing it all the time and eventually you go too fast and kill yourself.
Its a crying shame there is so much in this world that can do damage if it gets out of hand.
RE: First, Apple. Now, Walmart. Porn gets no tech respect.
Of course
Porn is Russian Roulette
1984, just wait and porn will be a thoughtcrime in the USA
Apple was first?
and has been doing so for years.
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RE: First, Apple. Now, Walmart. Porn gets no tech respect.
http://www.techwankers.com/2010/02/27/apples-adult-entertainment-products/
RE: First, Apple. Now, Walmart. Porn gets no tech respect.
http://www.techwankers.com/2010/02/27/apples-adult-entertainment-products/