I was a little bit surprised by this story.In the UK T-Mobile has added their Content Block to BlackBerrys. The service defaults to being on and it blocks adult sites, gambling sites, illegal sites, and online child abuse content.
You have to go in a store or online and provide credit card or id to prove you are over 18 to have the block turned off. However even with the block turned off some pages are still blocked.
T-Mobile may mean well, but I am capable of deciding for myself if I want to visit a website. I do not need my phone provider deciding what I should and shouldn't see. And if I am giving a child too young to decide that a BlackBerry I might be worried about myself.
What are your thoughts?
