Aussie youth bypassing internet filter to view porn with PSP

by Chris Powell { Nov 24th 2007 at 3:30PM }

Last year, the PSP hit a pretty large bump in the road on its way to handheld bliss when the mainstream media discovered that American youth were using it to download porn. Now, the "PlayStation Pornable" is under siege again as Australian minors are using it to bypass their government's $84 million internet filter to view porn that was previously inaccessible.

Apparently, any handheld device, not just the PSP, can access the internet and view porn without worry of being blocked by the filter. Rather than lambast the government's ineffective filter, Barbara Biggs, the author of the story published in the Herald Sun, is criticizing the PSP, other handheld devices, ISPs and just about everything else under the sun.

To be perfectly honest, youth accessing porn isn't something that has just happened since the advent of the internet. Pornographic magazines and movies have long since found their way into the hands of under-aged minors. It just seems like today the media chooses to fault the developers behind the hardware rather than the parents who aren't ensuring they know what they're children are doing in their bedrooms.

Tags: internet-filter, porn, pspornable

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Dehshizknight @ Nov 24th 2007 4:14PM

I agree with you on the subject of blaming the developers. If an underage driver (as in under the driving age) drives a car into something and causes a great deal of damage, you can't blame Henry Ford for that. Its the parent's fault.

KHCloud @ Nov 24th 2007 6:35PM

Masturbation is good, let the kid does what he wants, so long as he isn't raping people or jacking off in front of you, why does it matter? I though Australian was found by the criminals and America was found by the squares, have roles reversed?

Tahiri @ Nov 24th 2007 8:57PM

Oh no, the world will end if little boys see beautiful women

yoshi @ Nov 24th 2007 11:19PM

i was with you until i read the last paragraph. I mean, i know this is psp fanboy but lets be honest i mean i know that this is a blog and everything but in keeping an unbiased point of view and like professional journaliasm, there was no need to add the last paragraph. the reader was going to reach that conclusion anyways.

Alien @ Nov 25th 2007 3:29AM

yoshi : a blog isnt really professional journalism ... people can say their opinion , blogs are much more liberal than newspapers . Anyways , I totally agree . This porn stuff is getting old . No matter what people will do , kids will always find a way trough :)