The iPhone is incredible, but one thing that is keeping me from buying one is lack of any kind of internet filtering to keep out porn and other bad stuff. I've got filters on all my computers, and would love one for the iPhone as well.
So far I have contacted two filtering companies (Intego and Covenant Eyes), and neither has anything for the iPhone. I'm told AT&T offers some optional filtering on the Edge network (via the Parental Controls which you access by logging into their website), but I have no idea how good it is, and the AT&T sales rep told me you can't edit or customize it, i.e. You can't block a specific site for example.
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Has anyone heard if there are any such 3rd party apps in development? The iPhone is incredible, but one thing that is keeping me from buying one is lack of any kind of internet filtering to keep out porn and other bad stuff. I've got filters on all my computers, and would love one for the iPhone as well. So far I have contacted two filtering companies (Intego and Covenant Eyes), and neither has anything for the iPhone. I'm told AT&T offers some optional filtering on the Edge network (via the Parental Controls which you access by logging into their website), but I have no idea how good it is, and the AT&T sales rep told me you can't edit or customize it, i.e. You can't block a specific site for example.
Has anyone heard if there are any such 3rd party apps in development? Click to expand.Well. It is a question of trust. Let's be honest here: if you trusted your children not to visit sites that you deem inappropriate, you would be trying to find a way to disable such functionality.
Speaking as a former child myself, I can tell you: attempting to 'block' inappropriate material doesn't remove the temptation to view it. If anything, it will provide more motivation to access said material, if only for the fun of the challenge and the feeling of satisfaction one gets from 'outsmarting' someone else. I know that you may think that you're protecting them from the 'evils of the internet', but in reality you'd simply be demonstrating to them that you don't trust them enough to 'do the right thing'. Try this: instead of immediately turning to technology for help, talk with your children about what is and is not appropriate material for them to view. If you must give them access to an iPhone., try to do so when you're around to keep an eye on them.
I can't easily imagine a scenario in which a child is old enough to need an iPhone, yet too young to be trusted to decide what information he does/does not view. Why are you guys on about trust?
If a child goes onto a website looking for wallpapers of their famous actress or something and finds some that could be deemed inappropriate how is that trusting the child not to go on the site if the content they were looking for is appropriate? I think filters are good to block most of the content be it to stop them going on things or to actually protect them against what they aren't looking for.
How many times have you gone onto an innocent looking site and found a huge pair of tits flapping around on a banner on the side or something similar?