Iphone, YouTube and Porn

If you would like to see parental filters on future versions of the iPhone, you can pass that suggestion along to Apple at http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

I am unaware of any cell phones with full browser capability which also have parental controls built in. Not to say that they don't exist, but I am not aware of them if they do.

Sorry, you under an incorrect impression. Any filtering of YouTube would have to be done at the YouTube site, which is not controlled by Apple, and not by the phone. the iPhone does not have any filtering software built into it.

My suggestion is, if you cannot trust your daughter to avoid p0rn - a decision each parent has to make on their own - you should not get her a phone that has the ability to look at it. That is, pretty much any phone that can display a web page.

My sympathies for your situation, but it is impossible to completely stop offensive material from getting anywhere kids can access it. I used the same sort of situation as a learning experience for my (then 13 year old) son and then moved on.

In all fairness, this is not Japanese ****, it's a G rated music video. If your children have seen Disney's Mulan, it's not any more offensive than that. Apparently it's the Title you find offensive, not the content. The Rihanna "Umbrella" video, which has a very non-offensive Title, is much more "offensive" than the video you are referring to.

You Tube actually has a user community filter in place. When a video has questionable content it takes you to a page that ask you to verify your age, as long as you have an account. To my knowledge, these videos are not ported to the You Tube feature on the iPhone, because there is no way to login to your account to verify age.

The very best filter in the world is You, the parent. Neither You Tube or Apple could ever implement a better filter than the parent. To your credit, your filter seems to work fine.

I am a 15 y.o. boy with an iPhone,
and yes thats different than a girl, but youtube is not converting programs that are rated for people over 18 for the iPhone, so a very small that is not tagged as rated X, so very little is being converted.

Tell apple you want videos that are being converted to the iphone have ratings, and that you want parental controls on what can be seen

Personally, this kind of disgusts me. Not that someones son and daughter got an eyeful of **** (although I do sympathize with you), but that parents are expecting OTHER people to monitor what their kids see. Its really up to YOU as a parent to determine whats appropriate to show your kids before they see it, its not Apples responsibility or You Tubes. You probably should have browsed the vids before letting your kids see any of them.

The internet has its dark and seedy neighborhoods just like any city does, and it is highly irresponsible for parents to let their kids out alone in either a city, or the internet (whether its through an iphone or a computer), without PROPER parental supervision (as far as teenagers with iphones, thats kind of an expensive item for a teen to have and appreciate it).

When I was a kid, my parents tried very hard to peruse all reading material I brought into the house. Inappropriate things were tossed....

Next time you want to show your kids something, make sure you check it out yourself first.

VERY True *

* In reference to the previous post of Parents who are to lazy to censor what their kids watch. Responsible parents are those who take parenting to the censoring stuff by themselves. Responsible parents DO NOT rely on someone else to censor things out for their kids

Message was edited by: jav6454

Hello,
There are 2 options u have
1 delete the you tube app from the iphone using independence a softwae freely available on the internet
also u could just remove the edge settings from the iphone so that they will not be able to connect to the web on the phone
i would suggest using the first option

There is no way for 100% protection. Your kid could just have easily used safari to go to a pornographic site. It is appalling that such a video was allowed on mobile YouTube, but in the end there is no way to stop EVERYTHING.

You can't censor the world.

Sorry, but you are HORRIBLY mistaken and over exaggerating! There is no **** on YouTube, the website or the iPhone. You may have seen a video with "xxx ****" in the title, but that's all you saw. If you clicked on the the video you would have seen nothing of the sort. Why would you click on something that said that with your kids around anyway?????

You can censor all you want, but in the end you were the one that supposedly clicked on something with "xxx ****" in the title (which is a whole other issue in my opinion)... which you didn't because you wouldn't have seen what the title suggested. If your kids were "traumatized" by the title, then they've got some serious problems.

YouTube removes pornographic content as soon as they find it and filters most of it. That's one of the arguments copyright holders use when they sue YouTube. If they can filter ****, they can filter material being posted illegally.

I don't know if there is offensive content on YouTube or not. But I think this parents question was about filtering content for her children. She's not lazy. It's not like a computer where you can sit looking over our kids shoulder. This is a mobile device that a child will be using most likely away from the parent. So sensoring is a big issue.

And by the way, there are parental controls on computers. My kids can't view any site through their profiles that I haven't pre-approved. And public libraries use extensive filters on their computers. And some of the phone companies are making cell phones for kids where parents can control content (as well as amount of usage and time of day usage).

I personally don't think that it's out of the ordinary that a parent request the ability to filter content on the iphones that they give to their children.

But at the same time, I don't think Apple is ready for that step. They're just trying to make sure they have it right at this point. Being an early adopter means you take it bumps and all. Start pushing them now for the ability to control future versions if you want to do that.

lsngctrl,

Without parental controls, the iPhone may not be appropriate for minors.

Matt