Cingular Filtering Porn From Wireless Web?

Atryn writes: "Cingular Wireless is reportedly blocking its customers from accessing 'objectionable material" via the Wireless Web.' The spokesman mentioned in the story disclaims knowledge of any blocking -- can any Cingular customers reading this confirm it?

Don't you dare take my porn

[jaxon6]

What will the world be coming to? I work hard, I follow the rules, I play fair. And in return what do I get? The ability to watch ASCII porn on my phone yanked out from under me. If I want to wait the fifteen minutes per image, so be it. I needs my porn. Boycott! Boycott!

Confirmation?

[Cheesewhiz]

can any Cingular customers reading this confirm it?

So, wait...let me get this straight...you WANT me to view "objectionable material"? Man, what's next, naked pictures of Taco?

(I feel kind of queasy now...)

I see he has experience with this...

[Loki_1929]

From the article, "Not that wireless Internet customers are missing much; porn images viewed on a cell phone are so pixelated it's tough to tell a nude from a smudge."

Now how does Ben Charny (author of the article) know what porn pictures on the cell phone look like?

Busted.

whoa

[martissimo]

never had considered the ability to get pr0n images on a cell phone, maybe the good old POTS line of mine is getting outdated after all!

Of course, chicks can still...

[leviramsey]

use their cell phones as vibrators [halfbakery.com].

Getting porn from a cellphone . . .

[vegetablespork]

. . . lemmesee w (9) w (9) w (9) . (####) g (4) o (66) a (2) t (8) s (7777) e (33) . (####) c (222) x (99) . . . nope, not worth it.

But this does pose an interesting question--what URL's are easily memorable, and are optimized for entry via telephone keypad as alpha?

Re:I see he has experience with this...

[Ooblek]

Also of note is Sprint PCS's spokesman Dan Wilinsky's quote:

"The Internet is the Internet"

I bet Sprint pays this guy a lot. What a visionary. What a proponent of freedom. He had the balls to go on record where others couldn't. They should let him star in a Michelob commercial.

Cell phone displays

[Fizzlewhiff]

Given the size of most cell phone displays perhaps they are doing a public service by blocking pr0n by saving people from unneeded eye strain. Ok, so I am reaching....

I'm just waiting for a voice over IP chat application on my cell phone. I think this will be the killer app for internet enabled cell phones. Imagine the convenience of being able to have a voice conversation on your internet enabled cell phone with another internet enabled cell phone user.

Re:I see he has experience with this...

[OblongPlatypus]

How do you know he isn't a smudge fanatic who enjoys viewing images of smudges on his cell phone, frequently finding himself mistaking them for nudes?

Inversed.

I'll filter your porn for you

[corebreech]

Just send it all to me.

Re:So?

[Darby]

where is the braille p0rn???

All around, my friend, all around.

Now if you're not really blind your odds of conviction for sexual assault skyrocket.

Re:Well...

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

> WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU WANT TO VIEW PORN ON YOUR CELL PHONE?

It's easier to use with one hand than your Workstation?

Or to sneak a quick peek in the weekly team status meeting?

Re:Well...

[TedCheshireAcad]

Because you can have the joy of searching for monochrome porn like this:

6628255544433#766677786266#6688333 (natalie portman nude)

...it's almost as stupid as AOL instant messenger on wireless web.