Sex Tech: Windows Live controversy, FleshStarter, Missile Defense Agency vs. porn
Summary: A collection of notable new sex and technology news items. Covers innovation, legal issues, IP, privacy, controversies, business and more.
This week in sex and tech we play catchup with highlights that include a puritanical Windows SkyDrive, the Missle Defense Agency getting caught with its pants down about malware, Iran's olive branch to Facebook and more.
Windows Live terminates accounts for users' private content
Windows Live showed it has a unique definition of "private" folders.
Multiple users have had their Windows Live accounts suspended over content that was uploaded to their SkyDrive - content they thought was for their eyes only.
The content was private material that apparently violated Windows Live/SkyDrive's Terms of Service ban on profanity, nudity of any kind (full, partial, human, non-human, animate, or photographic), “obscenity.”
The Terms also state users can’t incite or advocate for any of these things, bringing links into question.
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SkyDrive brings 1950s censorship to 2012 technology (The Compass Project)
Missile Defense Agency issues porn policy
Of course you sholdn't look at porn when you're at work, unless porn is actually your job.
So it seems unusual to see the Missile Defense Agency issue a specific directive about browsing porn at work.
Officials at the Pentagon have instructed employees not to browse porn on work computers – it’s considered ‘unprofessional’ and a poor use of worktime, and they believe it is a security threat.
Why?
The claim is malware – but since malware is paired with more than just porn, why not just enforce safe browsing across the board, hmmm?
- Missile Defense Agency warns workers to lay off the porn (NY Daily News)
Porn copyright trolling continues to backfire
Big porn's agressive, shakedown-style mass filesharing lawsuits continue to deep-six porn's reputation.
Ars Technica points out that when porn copyright trolling becomes fodder for outraged evening news coverage, it’s a sign the backlash against the practice has truly gone mainstream.
- This week’s local news scare: porn trolls are coming for you (Ars Technica)
A "Kickstarter for porn" idea
Another "like X for porn" site is fluffing itself for launch.
FleshStarter has been in development for more than a year and is intended to complement existing crowdfunding sites, such as Kickstarter and IndieGoGo, that bar participation by adult oriented projects.
Iran reaches out to Facebook for censorship partnership
In a turnabout in Tehran’s stance toward Facebook, Iran's iron-fisted government now says it's keen to work with the social network to control its citizens experience of the internet.
A semi-official Iranian news agency says police hope to work with Facebook to fight cyber-crimes and pornography.
Considering that Facebook and Iran share the same take on obscenity and pornography - refusing to define it as anything other than "stuff we don't like" - it seems like the kind of opportunity the social networking giant might not want to pass up in exploring new markets.
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Talkback
If a person is so stupid as to be looking at porn
Not entirly true.
All humans i nature think of sex, regardless where you go, where you stand where you think, in your mind, your thinking what her breasts look like, how big his blah blah is, so in reality we all think about sex, reardless where we go, its human nature to do so, to spread our DNA, its what makes us all human, so you wouldnt be a screwed up individual, unless of course its unusual Taboos then you might have a point somewhere in the thin lines. Remember think before your actions, remember to remind yourself your at work and its not the right place and is the wrong time.