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Apple Awarded 'Anti-Sexting' Patent
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Because it's an infeasible, illogical, dumb idea. I'm not necessarily against the concept of parental controls in general. But the idea of trying to filter sexting, in particular, is just going to be a neverending chase. As I said in another thread, and as many people have pointed out, kids will eventually just come up with new terminology anyway. Every eight-year-old boy finds even the word "it" hilariously funny ("You said you're doing 'it'! Hawhawhawhaw!") What are we going to do, progressively filter the entire dictionary out?
A swear-word filter might not be a bad idea (lots of forums have those, and heck, I'd activate that on my own phone) but that's hardly new and patentable.
where there's a will ... there's a way
This just will make them be creative about what they are saying...
This just will make them be creative about what they are saying...
As a parent, I would absolutely love to have this option available to me.
I can also see something like this being of value in enterprise. We've seen how pervy employees can potentially subject a company to legal liability (*nods in Brett Favre's direction*). The ability to block this from happening on company-owned phones might be a compelling feature.
Edit: I see longball11 already hit the Brett Favre reference.
I can also see something like this being of value in enterprise. We've seen how pervy employees can potentially subject a company to legal liability (*nods in Brett Favre's direction*). The ability to block this from happening on company-owned phones might be a compelling feature.
Edit: I see longball11 already hit the Brett Favre reference.
Why all the negatives?
Surely this is a good thing as an option for implementation by companies or parents who have a right to restrict or content. It is not something that has any effect on anyone else. SO WHY SO MANY NEGATIVES? There are hundreds of web access parental and commercial softwares which are praised no end so what's the beef?
Surely this is a good thing as an option for implementation by companies or parents who have a right to restrict or content. It is not something that has any effect on anyone else. SO WHY SO MANY NEGATIVES? There are hundreds of web access parental and commercial softwares which are praised no end so what's the beef?
if i bought you a 500 dollar phone and paid that 100 dollar phone bill every month i couldn't care less about your frontal lobe test drives. you aren't an adult and thats why we as parents exist. to help shape your future. your life isnt freaking hard. you have an iphone. shut up and be a kid.
First amendment doesn't guarantee you to be heard, only that you have the freedom to say the words.
i dont want to have a debate everytime i give an instruction. "get out of the street! (why) *SPKLOSHHHHHH SCREEETCH* because that laurie will kill you... and it has." train up a child to listen and live the life of character and your motives wont need to be brought into question.
Wow, how are all these 'kids' affording iPhones anyway? I'm 23 and I don't have enough disposable income to be able to spend £500 on a ****ing mobile phone.
If a kid goes out and gets a job, and has money to buy an iPhone, then let them text whatever they want, as long as they can pay for it. You'll soon find most kids can't afford an iPhone so they won't be texting these horrific, danger-to-society, text messages.
Seriously, is this just some American thing where parents don't know what to spend their money on anymore so they buy their children iPhones then blame them for texting other kids? Why don't you buy them a thesaurus?
If a kid goes out and gets a job, and has money to buy an iPhone, then let them text whatever they want, as long as they can pay for it. You'll soon find most kids can't afford an iPhone so they won't be texting these horrific, danger-to-society, text messages.
Seriously, is this just some American thing where parents don't know what to spend their money on anymore so they buy their children iPhones then blame them for texting other kids? Why don't you buy them a thesaurus?
I know! How dare they! I hate it when companies offer additional options to their consumers. It's just ridiculous. I prefer to have no options, that way my rights can't be violated!
/sarcasm.
For all the people blowing up for no reason... it's an optional feature to turn on. Apple's just getting themselves another form of parental controls. You know, parental controls, that thing that helps parents be even better parents as long as they're smart enough to use such features. It not like there's a whole lot of good parenting going on these days. Plenty of companies make a living off software like this.
Last time I checked they're at least made the same way.
(this isn't directed at you, Mattie) I can't figure out why, whenever something to do with parenting comes up, people all have to throw their 2 cents in about what everyone else is doing wrong.
It humours me to no end that you had to put "/sarcasm" in your post... Too many poor, poor people with no sense of humour.
words are so last decade. Pics and vids are where's its at.
My 2 cents: parents should set me up with their good-looking daughters
My 2 cents: parents should set me up with their good-looking daughters
How many kids would actually use a sentence like that? It's technical talk that a businessperson would use, not a teenager.
What the heck kind of world do you live in???? Children should be raised to be intelligent in the first place??? Did it occur to you that many are raised well but are around other kids daily? Parents can't constantly control who their kids hang around with outside the home. There are other kids that your perfectly raised child hang around that teach them the bad things about sex and how to be disrespectful and how to use some very raw profanity along with taking drugs.
I'd like to know how the heck can parenting a child's mobile phone cause mental pressure on a child? Texting is not something that went down in history, it's a new fad that kids love to use so they don't have to interact with other humans face to face anymore. In other words, they don't need it and it's ridiculous for you to say that it will harm the child mentally for parenting them in regards to their cell phone. When I was growing up a mild punishment meant that I couldn't watch TV and had to stay in my room. You're talking about reducing texting privileges can harm the child? Please!
You're living in an unrealistic world. "Just tell them what is, show them and let them know that you trust them"? LOL. Yeah, that only works on TV. Most kids will take advantage the moment they know the parents trust them.