Some disturbing news

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First the news ...

CYBERSPACE — Apple has launched another salvo in its anti-porn crusade, this time winning a patent filed in 2008 that prevents sexting on iPhones.
Reports said that the patent, filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, provides “Text-based communication control for personal communication devices.”
Called the "anti-sexting” patent in tech circles, the description further spells out its “parental controls”: The application “Filters incoming and/or outgoing text communications based on administrator-defined criteria, alerting the user, administrator or other designated individuals when a message contains unauthorized content. The control application can require the user to replace the unauthorized text, automatically delete the text and even strike the entire communication.”
In plain English this means certain words that are sexual in nature will be prevented from being sent or displayed.
The patent does however allow for certain text elements that are necessary to learn foreign languages, for example, a certain number of Spanish words per day can be included in messages for a child learning the language.
When Apple announced its iPhone 4 last April, CEO Steve Jobs made it clear to concerned customers that there would be no porn apps developed for the device.
Jobs said, "You know, there's a porn store for Android. You can download nothing but porn. You can download porn, your kids can download porn. That's a place we don't want to go — so we're not going to go there."

LOS ANGELES — Wicked Pictures and Vivid Entertainment have ceased film production following the announcement that a porn performer has tested positive for HIV.
"When Vivid was first made aware that a performer had tested positive for HIV we immediately suspended production," Steven Hirsch, Vivid's co-founder, told the Los Angeles Times.
"We did this as a precaution and will continue to monitor the situation. AIM Healthcare acted appropriately to quarantine all adult talent who may have been exposed. We will wait for all of the facts to emerge before we resume production.
"Even though Wicked is condoms-mandatory, we have postponed our upcoming productions to give AIM a chance to create a comprehensive quarantine list," Wicked officials said. "Thanks to the continued efforts of AIM the entire industry was all made aware of this possible threat on the same day."
AIM spokeswoman Jennifer Miller, aka Brooke Hunter, said the case revealed today involves an unidentified adult-film performer who tested positive at AIM's Sherman Oaks branch.
Miller declined to reveal the gender of the performer or the companies he or she worked for.
"We do have a confirmed adult-industry performer who tested positive for HIV. We are quarantining and testing all exposed partners to the individual who tested positive for HIV," Miller said.
"We’re doing what we can to notify the individuals involved," Miller said.