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Tuesday, November 08, 2005
Limpag: Porn in Addict Mobile’s blog portal
By Max Limpag
Celltalk
Expected. Whenever you create a service where anyone can send in photos, expect to receive pornographic images. Most photo sharingservices have people who filter these images or a built-in system where users can tag a photo as “may offend.”
There’s no such system apparently in Addict Mobile’s blog portal, PinoyTechBlog.com, reported recently.
The publicly-accessible Addict Mobile blog contains photos of naked people showing off their private parts side by side with images of babies taken by proud parents who would be horrified at thejuxtaposition.
What’s puzzling about the situation is that the pages contain a warning that users “understand and agree that Smart may review and delete any content, messages, photos or profiles that in the sole judgment of Smart might be offensive, illegal…
Restricted content includes, but is not limited to, pornographic or sexually explicit material of any kind… Smart may delete content it deems offensive,including pornographic or sexually explicit material.”
You would presume that, with the warning, Smart or Addict Mobile would actually review the photos posted in their system.
Not only is the blog portal publicly accessible, the Smart corporate website contains in its front page a link to it.
Some of the photos appeared to have been taken by a boyfriend in one of those private moments with a girl. There is a big chance that the naked photo was posted publicly without her permission, unless of course she’s an exhibitionist and gets her kicks from having the world see her naked body.
I am not against publication of naked photos. What I’m against is its publication in a publicly accessible website. Naked photos should be restricted by username and password combinations taken from registration data that would prove the user is of legal age.
TAGGING. Smart can either get an employee to review postings in the blog portal and delete the pornographic photos or put up a tagging system.
Many photo-sharing sites contain a button to tag photos aspornographic or offensive. This, I believe, is more effective than having someone go over all the images.
(November 8, 2005 issue)
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