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PlayStation Home And Porn - No Problems
Via Eurogamer, a post on the 'semi-official' ThreeSpeech blog essentially saying that Sony doesn't see porn as an issue for the upcoming Home PS3 service. Sony's Phil Harrison was on the other end of the blog's questions, and after reminding us that avatars won't be able to interact, it will be easy to blacklist people, and they will have lots of filters in place: "Well I'm disappointed that you would use those as the first questions ... I think Home should be used for a much wider and more beneficial scope than [porn], but I think that people can express their creativity inside Home in a wide variety of ways and it's not necessarily for us to dictate what that should be."
Then you have a problem.
Hot damn.
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I think that this is an incredibly mature, forward-thinking thing to say, coming from the inherently egotistical corporate giant. While it sounds like I just like my pr0nz0rz, which may or may not be true (you, the reader of this drivel, decide!), I honestly do believe that censorship, even in pornography, is the exact opposite to being beneficial to society as a whole. I'm all for cordoning off the areas and age-checking, however.
That said, on a completely unrelated note, apparently Firefox doesn't underline the word "pr0nz0rz" as being a spelling mistake. Hmm.
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So now I have to have to make up for the lack of avatar interaction with much hotter sexes chat? Geeze Sony way to move more work onto the consumer!
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Because everybody's playing with their Wiis.
Duh.
I think Sony's best bet is to not really worry about what individuals are doing on their service in terms of porn, and just make sure it's possible for a parent to fully lock out their kids from the home service if they so desire. Trying to monitor what everyone's doing isn't realistic without taking out just about every way that individuals can customize their "homes." And once you've done that, then what's the point?
They should just not care, and let people make out of it what they want. Sure, it'll probably end up just like Second Life with better graphics, but pretty much anything with significant user created content is 95% crap, and a large percentage porn.
Maybe all Sony's going for is a glorified chat room. If that's the case, then I don't see the initial excitement about it lasting much beyond release. If they're instead trying to tie in to more of the myspace/flickr/blogging mindset, then they're going to have to give people some free reign to be creative. And yes, that means there's going to be a lot of people trying to do dirty things. But you know what, give the customers what they want, and they're going to be more willing to give you money.
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Will there be parental locks and a "net nanny" service available for concerned parents?
This should have been part of Sony's basic market research.. it's a real need that many parents have, no matter what you might think of it.
How we know is more important than what we know.
This is actually quite interesting as Sony refused to release Porn on the betamax format, which some argue was a deciding factor on the adoption of VHS. Granted, this isn't a format war but still interesting...
Ah, but Firefox does correct spelling errors too ;D
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I believe Sony also disallowed porno games on the PS1 (and PS2?) as well.
Even if they disallowed porno games on the PS3, Home opens up all sorts of sordid possibilities.
I predict that before Christmas, we'll start hearing about local newscasters doing "Shocking expose'" stories about how the PS3 is a portal for porn and child molesters to access your child.
They are talking about the online home, not the blueray disks, so that's a different matter entirely. If you do a search for "+porn +sony +blueray" in google you'll see that sony have done the same thing for blueray as they did betamax....
Calling it either the Pronstation3 or the Play*coff*with yourself/other*coff*station.
Of course when it won't read the disks anymore...blue-ray/balls will work its way into the joke,
or the Office Space "Two chicks/controllers *at the same time*".
Heh.
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I completely agree, except that I don't really see a workable solution for Sony. How do you allow players to interact in any way without a whole bunch of them doing dirty stuff? The best you can do is have it very strongly policed by real people (moderators), which is expensive and annoying to the player base.
Then consider the fact that Sony's console is strongly marketed towards the hardcore gamer, which is that young male demographic which is mostly likely to want to introduce porn into the system, and most likely to react negatively to policing by Sony.
Even if you're not interested in any porn content, the limitations that would be necessary to truly prevent it would limit what you can do.
One time I threw a brick at a duck.
That's interesting. If you connect to the PSP Network, you can actually filter games based on "Adult Only" status.
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"I predict that before Christmas, we'll start hearing about local newscasters doing "Shocking expose'" stories about how the PS3 is a portal for porn and child molesters to access your child."
Depends on how much control over the media Sony has. AFAIK Nintendo has no media ownership, Microsoft has a lot, and Sony...well, Sony is everywhere.
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