Mobile phone companies to filter web content for minors

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Mobage town, a social network and gaming site for mobile phones, is now in deep crisis.

From December 10th, the Japanese government has requested mobiles phone companies to filter web content for minors. The filtering policy is very strict. It prohibits minors from accessing web sites in ‘communication’ criterion. ‘communication’ means all web sites with forum, chat, comment, or social network feature. So, Mobage falls into that criterion.

50% of Mobage users are minors. It will hurt DeNA, the operator of Mobage. Nomura securities, Japan’s leading stockbroker, downgraded DeNA’s rating. DeNA’s stock price fell 30 percent.

Nobuo Sakiyama, a social activist, criticized the fact that mobile phone companies are filtering web sites with gay and lesbian, political or religional topics.

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  3. links from Technoratia las compañías móviles NTT Docomo, KDDI, Softbank y Willcom para filtrar estrictamente el contenido web para menores [ja], lo que bloquearía el acceso a los foros, chat rooms y redes sociales para usuarios menores de 18 años, y potencialmenteponer fin a populares servicios web orientados a los jóvenes. Mientras tanto, el 18 de Diciembre, el Subcomité de Producción Privada de Música y Video de la Agencia de Asuntos Culturales de Japón convocó una reunión en la que presionaron para un bloqueo de las descargas privadas de material señalado

  4. links from Technoratiof the Democratic Party submitted a bill with the aim to create an environment that “makes it possible for children to safely use the Internet”. According to bloggers, the bills goes significantly further than earlier legislationintroduced late last year, which mandated default filtering on mobile phones for minors. Nonetheless, aside from a single article in Asahi shimbun [ja] on the topic, the two bills appear to have been granted no mainstream media attention.

  5. links from Technoratiof the Democratic Party submitted a bill with the aim to create an environment that “makes it possible for children to safely use the Internet”. According to bloggers, the bills goes significantly further than earlier legislationintroduced late last year, which mandated default filtering on mobile phones for minors. Nonetheless, aside from a single article in Asahi shimbun [ja] on the topic, the two bills appear to have been granted no mainstream media attention.

  6. links from Technoratiof the Democratic Party submitted a bill with the aim to create an environment that “makes it possible for children to safely use the Internet”. According to bloggers, the bills goes significantly further than earlier legislationintroduced late last year, which mandated default filtering on mobile phones for minors. Nonetheless, aside from a single article in Asahi shimbun [ja] on the topic, the two bills appear to have been granted no mainstream media attention.

  7. links from TechnoratiMember Takai Miho of the Democratic Party submitted a bill with the aim to create an environment that “makes it possible for children to safely use the Internet”. According to bloggers, the bills go significantly further than earlier legislationintroduced late last year, which mandated default filtering on mobile phones for minors. Nonetheless, aside from a single article in Asahi shimbun [ja] on the topic, the two bills appear to have been granted no mainstream media attention.

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