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Canadian Phone Company Selling Porn
westcoaster004 writes "Telus, Canada's second-largest telecommunications carrier has started selling pornography to its cellular subscribers. The service allows subscribers with mobile browsers to purchase both photographic and video adult-oriented content from Telus, at an average of CD$4 per download. Telus decided to introduce the service after noticing that there existed a certain 'segment of the population that is interested in that content' from review of the mobile Web browsing habits of their subscribers 'on an aggregate level.' They are the first telecommunications company in Canada to offer such content. A Telus spokesman said: 'We're fairly certain that if our competitors in Canada haven't launched it, they will soon. Same in the US.'"
How big is Canada's bloc of religious wackos who think anything sexual is so horrible it needs to be banned? I'm hoping it's significantly smaller than it is in the US so that this excellent example of free speech will hold up as something for America to follow.
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I still can not figure out why anybody buys porn when so much of it is still free, as in beer as it were.
Guessing it might be harder to get free on one's phone as I have not tried to get it at all on mine, but still.
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Telus decided to introduce the service after noticing that there existed a certain 'segment of the population that is interested in that content'
You mean 98.7 percent of the entire adult population.
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mobile browsers to purchase both photographic and video adult-oriented content from Telus, at an average of CD$4 per download.
Goddamn! $4 for images & videos... I guess Canadian Telcos are as fond of screwing their customers as the US's.
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
"Pornography" is such a dirty word... Let's call it what it is, erotica.
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'We're fairly certain that if our competitors in Canada haven't launched it, they will soon. Same in the US.'
Yeah, right, buddy. Maybe the population as a whole is a little more liberal up there in America Junior, but if AT&T, Verizon or any other U.S. cell provider even floats that idea in a meeting, the Bible-thumpers will start up the boycotts and letter-writing campaigns and raise all kinds of hell to make sure it never comes to fruition.
~Philly
It is porn...
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Telus is actually a fairly progressive company. They even started using VOIP for long distance back in 2002. Home Internet service is quite reliable (they don't even shape bittorrent traffic, that I'm aware of), and they're often upgrading ADSL service at no extra charge (though I splurged for a 6.0/1.0 connection at $45/mn). They also stand up for their customers, refusing to give out customer details without a subpoena, etc. The Mobility division (cell phones, etc) is also quite competitive, though they do rape you with long distance charges on cellphones, but no one has the same coverage they do. Honestly, this latest move doesn't surprise me too much (though I was surprised when it first showed up on my cell's browsing homepage).
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when Canadians and others with porn on their mobilephones, beknownstly or unbekonwnstly illegal in the US arrive in the US and get deatained for it? It all sounds so salacious. what is an agent thinks the "performers" or "models" are not of age (even if there were) how'd you prove it quickly? I see lots of inconveneince. Leave your porn home....
Anyway, what kind of mentality do thse people have needing porn on their phones.. Can't they wait till they get back home (or office at worst).Talk about people who can't contol their urges.
Well, except for the fact that it demeans women (and men for that matter), cheapens and turns a God-given gift into a commodity, reduces human beings from being to people to be loved and honored to being objects and tools for one's one self-gratification-- not much I guess.
And most people bring up 'morals' because most people are idiots and are incapable of seeing the world from someone else's view, and also incapable of seeing the inherent subjectivity of morality.
Well, except for the fact that it demeans women (and men for that matter), cheapens and turns a God-given gift into a commodity, reduces human beings from being to people to be loved and honored to being objects and tools for one's one self-gratification-- not much I guess.
Are you talking about pornography or labor. I get confused about the difference....
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
As if driving and talking on the phone wasn't dangerous enough. How will I hold the steering wheel?
I spend most of my time in bed, darling.
Are you sure? IMHO, it's equivalent to saying that CSI / TV-Drama's replicates what happens in real life in the real world, but in a more exagerrated way.. And by exagerrated, you would know what I mean. O wait,.. this is slashdot.....
IMHO, I find these morals good in a sense that I would prefer living in area where such good morals are upheld than in one where it isn't. It brings a sense of protection for me, my family, etc
I miss the point of the first sentence. CSI is to crime investigation as Porn is to sex. Both are fake replicas that stress quick umm.. resolution over the truth behind normal situations.
IMHO, areas of strict morality only hide the vices better. Strict morality does not generally make you a better person. For each giving and self sacraficing "moral" person there is a dozen hippocritical, hateful "moral" person. Ditto for the Immoral.
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Simple. If you're viewing pornographic material in a public area and people call the cops, you can be busted for indecent exposure. Do it within distance of a school, get busted as a child molester. Remember, not all "wackos" are fundamentalist fruitcakes. Some are concerned citizen who don't want their neighborhoods turned into a red light district.
>Porn to me, replicates what happens in real life...in the real world.
How often have you seen someone in a porn film use a condom or say "I love you"?
Actually, I didn't say they shouldn't be allowed to. The OP asked a question, and I answered it. He asked what is wrong with pornography and I replied with the statements you have quoted about people demeaning themselves. I didn't make any statements about what people should be allowed or not allowed to do. The fact that people make a choice to participate in a given behavior doesn't lessen the harm it does to them.
I applaud you for having no idea how the Canadian telecommunications field works. From a Canadian perspective, the idea of porn is a minor issue, and the media issue is a non-issue. It's a completely different game up here, bucko.
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Okay, then I'm still confused as to how exactly it demeans them.
And don't bring religion or morals into this without proof that your choice of such is correct.
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Porn to me, replicates what happens in real life..
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Speak for yourself
Forget the religious wackos. Now instead of one handed cell phone using drivers were going to have people diving with their knees while they use the other hand to choke their chicken.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
That would explain why our free to air TV is so bland and safe and not at all full of swearing and nudity. Oh wait a minute....
But seriously, aside from the Jerry Springer Opera fiasco which was an extremely organised campaign, we don't have anything like the Mary Whitehouse movement given any mainstream credibility. And the religious movements that there are react to perceived threats to their religion (the Jerry Springer Opera again...) which is as expected and don't seem to bother much with lewdity in general. Is lewdity a word? It should be.
Why are Canadian politics like Belgian baseball?
You are welcome on my lawn.
The thing is, if you're too goddam fucking stupid to NOT activate the adult-content service when you sign up for your child's cell phone contract, you deserve whatever you get. Granted, most people are indeed too stupid to even read their cell-phone contract, and are definitely too stupid to NOT check the little box that enables the adult content service... but that's just how life is. The kid that eats the most marbles doesn't get to grow up and have more kids. The kid who eats the second most will grow up and give his kids a big bag of cherry-flavoured marbles...
There is no hope for the children of stupid people. Let's just accept that, and allow the rest of us have our freedom.
Doesn't it make you feel good to know that our freedoms are protected by politicans, lawyers and journalists.
Doesn't it make you feel good to know that our freedoms are protected by politicans, lawyers and journalists.