New US phone network for Christians to block porn and gender-related content

Redster

I am glad someone is doing something like this. Very cool to see a free market solution. I do wonder, how will they handle Instagram, Youtube, and X.com, the everything (incl. porn!) app?

xvxvx

That ISPs don’t allow content blocking by subscribers has always surprised me. Workplaces handle it but not homes?

amanaplanacanal

Interesting. I assumed that cellular providers were common carriers. Who knows under this administration though.

nerdsniper

So, Andrew Tate videos would be blocked for talking about male gender roles? I don’t understand why we are replacing “LGBT Content” with “Gender Content” in formal vocabulary.

themacguffinman

Seems pretty high effort compared to a content blocker mobile app or native parental controls. I'm not sure why anyone would get this.

sikozu

This is such an extreme thing to do, there must be a better way. Why can't religion coexist alongside societal progress? From my (limited) understanding of the Bible, as it was translated and translated over the years to our common, modern languages a lot of it has been adjusted, and these adjustments don't align with the original text. Perhaps it needs to be changed further. I would love for people to have a religion to believe in, which does fulfill them without going against current and future societal values and norms.

KnuthIsGod

"‘You’re a traitor!’ yelled the boy. ‘You’re a thought criminal! You’re a Eurasian spy! I’ll shoot you, I’ll vaporize you, I’ll send you to the salt mines!’ Suddenly they were both leaping around him, shouting ‘Traitor!’ and ‘Thought-criminal!’, the little girl imitating her brother in every movement. It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gamboling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters." – George Orwell

axus

Happy to have the market solve a problem, providing an opt-in solution for people who want it. Somehow porn doesn't show up in my web-browsing either, funny how that works.

SilverElfin

Couldn’t you just do parental controls on the phones you own for yourself or your kids

AndrewKemendo

Now we’re talking Affinity groups using technology to reject social norms is absolutely the future The techno-balkanization will be televised! The follow on compression will be really crazy.

gitowiec

This is Opus Dei's work and it's no good for the USA

beardyw

I take the assumption to be that Christians are somehow not able to resist porn by their own efforts?

peter-m80

USA is a joke now

jqpabc123

“Fisher says he’s recruited a mix of Christian influencers to advertise the plan and has also done outreach to thousands of churches ..." Religion is the world's oldest con --- and this is yet another example of how it can be used to fleece the faithful. The only thing that prevents me from getting involved in something like this is my non-Christian morals.

kiriberty

Welcome to Iran 2.0

add-sub-mul-div

What an unserious life philosophy, not approaching unfamiliar things with curiosity.

bastard_op

It sounds like the great firewall of god that is meant to prevent all sins. In theory it's probably just a content filtering service, same as most enterprises do, but with a spin for godly sheep to flock to. Not a bad idea really if you have kids, as the alternative is basically spyware on your kids phone, and today it's somewhat trivial to build your own MVNO off a mainstream network like this. Would I ever trust it? About as much as I'd ever trust a priest around my kid, which is never.

dlev_pika

The marketing targeting is going to be insane

duskdozer

Finally, perse/per/pers time to shine! Hmm, I think the gender-people have also started using "they" and "them", maybe use þey and þem as true, non-gender-related substitutes?

VariousPrograms

To fill the gap left by all the sites being blocked, the company intends to offer access to a library of religious content, including AI-generated Bible videos. Truly a serious and spiritual company. Maybe you can chat with AI Jesus instead of going to PornHub.