Friday, March 2nd 2007
Wii have a porn problem!
Or, that's what the The Porn Talk is calling their latest anti-pornography campaign. The Porn Talk appears to be a parent activist group aimed at helping parents talk to their kids about porn. They seem to have taken the ability of the Wii to access the internet a wee bit too far. Their latest campaign's goal is to teach parents how to protect their children from the pornography that can be accessed using the Nintendo Wii. While the Nintendo Wii already has plenty of safety features put in place programmed to do just that, The Porn Talk claims that it simply isn't enough.
Source:
1Up
The solution lies in parents getting the facts and then talking to their children about expectations for online activity... The Wii is an amazing console and tons of fun but parents need good info on how to keep kids safe.
21 Comments on Wii have a porn problem!
Also an XML/HTML tag references like [HTML]<porn></porn>
or <18></18>
or <adult></adult>[/HTML]
Then a very simple filter/firewall can be used to control content. For a console, this keep things simple. For school and office PCs, this is also simple to manage. And for parents, no need to worry or set up complex software. ANy browser would have password locked acces to these sites (that only DAD would know LOL).
If the wrong kind of content appeared on untagged (or .com sites), then the IP addresses offering porn that is not .18 or correctly tagged could be blocked by ISP, or other controlling body. This is not stopping porn or adult content... just making sure that the material gets properly rated and tagged. Not unlike movie ratings.
Thats beside the fact, that this problem makes no sense..
I mean kids arent going to access the internet on the Wii more than on their PC's.
no joke, this was on fox.
I mean look at it like this: How many 10 year olds do you think have their own computer in their bedroom? Now how many 10 year olds have their own Wii in their bedroom? Something tells me that the number of Wiis in kids bedrooms is a lot higher. Yeah, you can monitor what the kid is doing, but you can't be there 24/7.
Though that brings me back to my point before, if they want to look at porn they are going to do it, no matter how hard parants try to stop them.
I dont really see why this is a problem. Other then kids becoming insecure with their sexual abilities and getting fetishes for squirting things onto faces and fruits into holes, and such things.
The thing that bugs me is that these parents make it seem that they havent done anything like this before. They never looked at porn when they were kids (teens)? I know my dad looked at playboys when he was in his teens. If a kid is determined to get porn, sooner or later he will find a way. Also these parents have a husband or wife, who needs porn if they are married ;) (with the exception of some). Im sure if they were still single, they would go to strip clubs and look at porn them selfs. But on the other hand, i feel that some restrictions should be applied by parents, atleast untill the kids are old enough (15ish) then turn the other cheek when ever suspicious of porn. The parents have other bigger things to worry about like drugs and sex. (And no porn isnt teaching or influencing sex for those of you who think i was a hypocrite there, they way kids learn about sex is from our parents "talk" and school health program (4th grade for me) and its the pheromones going crazy that influence sex in teens. Sex is going to happen if porn is available or not.)