Verizon: FiOS Adult Content Displays Will Be Opt-In

[brooklynite]

Broadcasting & Cable

Verizon this year will start requiring new FiOS customers to opt-in to see the display of adult content. That's according to a letter from its CEO to the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE), specifically to president Patrick Trueman and senior VP and executive director Dawn Hawkins.

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In releasing its 2017 "dirty dozen" list Wednesday of what it calls major contributors to sexual exploitation, generally for allowing access to adult content via their various platforms, NCOSE (formerly Morality in Media) said Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam had signaled to the group that the company would be making that opt-in change in early 2017.

McAdam, in a letter to the group dated June 30 of last year (according to a copy supplied by NCOSE), says that "in early 2017, the display of adult content for new customers of FiOS IPTV will be automatically disabled. This means that adult content will not be in the menu unless a customer proactively enables it, nor will it be featured on the main menu page or in any recommendations."

As a result, NCOSE has taken it off the list for this year, calling it a positive change by company leaders, while still saying Verizon "continues to profit from the distribution and sale of pornography."

Parental controls already exist. I see no need to "protect adults from themselves", and especially not as a sop to RW "morality" police.

[MrScorpio]

1. Freaking prudes.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

2. To opt in, or to opt out, WWMFMD?

What would Middle-Finger-Mom do?

[Eugene]

3. Like hiding the adult magazines behind the counter. That worked with Playboy, didn't it?

Morality in Media wants to take the hardcore porn off cable
by making viewers work harder to get it. Why am I skeptical?