In Indonesia, Internet pornography on the go is under assault.
Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM) has revealed that it will filter Internet content on Blackberrys in that country in response to a government threat to shut down Internet browsing on the devices if the company didn’t block websites that contain porn, according to the Wall Street Journal.
A RIM executive in Indonesia told the Journal that RIM’s action will be the first time the company will filter Web content in any country.
In a report last year, Juniper Research found that the increase in smartphones and low cost of data packages is leading to a sharp increase in the number of people surfing adult entertainment sites on their wireless devices.
England-based Juniper Research expects that roughly 35 million people around the world will subscribe to mobile adult pay sites by 2015.
The firm found that the boom in smartphones for consumers “indirectly resulted in the adult industry generating substantial revenues in the U.S. for the first time," according to a press release issued by Juniper Research on November 23. “The market had previously been constrained by carrier reluctance to offer adult consent on-portal, but that direct to consumer (D2C) adult sites were profiting as consumers were surfing the Internet via the mobile in ever increasing numbers."
