Apple Warns Amazon About Sexually Explicit Kindle Content Accessible to Children

[yaxomoxay]

I don't doubt your word but I have not come across that sort of material on Reddit. I mainly stick to the tech and music related areas.

You won’t randomly stumble upon it, but it’s easily available.

 

[rembert]

Hopefully, Amazon corrects this problem asap. Children don’t need to be looking at such pictures.

Why is that? Is the naked human body sinful, not to be looked at, to be ashamed of or what? I’d like hate speech, porn, and age-inappropriate violence and sex to be kept away from this age group. Not just nude pictures of people.

My originaly reply got banned as it apparantly got regarded by the moderators as a personal insult. If you (or any reader) felt insulted, my apologies, that's not my intention.

 

[Crom!]

Such content is already widely accessible in many k-12 school districts.

 

[normwood]

Sounds like a parenting issue.

 

[falkon-engine]

I’m not defending Amazon but couldn’t the children instead use Safari or Chrome to access questionable content ?

 

[MindYourMind]

Why is that? Is the naked human body sinful, not to be looked at, to be ashamed of or what? I’d like hate speech, porn, and age-inappropriate violence and sex to be kept away from this age group. Not just nude pictures of people.

Sensibly spoken!

 

[MysticCow]

Where's parental responsibility in all of this?

Until parental responsibility happens in law, with clearly defined consequences and boundaries, they will not be responsible en masse.

This is also political suicide, so it will never happen.

 

[d686546s]

Until parental responsibility happens in law, with clearly defined consequences and boundaries, they will not be responsible en masse.

This is also political suicide, so it will never happen.

I'm not sure why we would need a law for this:

Amazon's Kindle platform sells adult-oriented books that include photographs that are not suitable for children, with the content first discovered by parents who contacted Reuters. The parents had purchased Kindle Unlimited for their pre-teen children because it included age appropriate books that were not available on Amazon's separate Amazon Kids+ subscription service.

A parent knowingly bought an adult-oriented service for their pre-teen when a separate service specifically tailored to this audience is available. It sucks if you can't get all the content you want, but that's life.

How is "supervise your kid or use the service for kids" not the end of the discussion?

 

[MysticCow]

How is "supervise your kid or use the service for kids" not the end of the discussion?

Because, just like the gun debates, it will simply happen again and again until THE SOLUTION (which must involve parental accountability set into law for the Amazon thing) happens. I'm sorry, and I wish it were not the case, but it is.

PLEASE NOTE: Let's not bring gun laws into the discussion and derail the thread. 😀