Wow I can hear the helicopters from over here.
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Lol “nudity should be illegal just as child porn”… Good one.
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Ahh, there we go.
Morality police trying to enforce their view onto others. There’s the root of the problem. Remember, nudity is in your eyes, filth, should be illegal, and the list goes on and on. Those are your opinions. Enforcing your opinions is your choice within your household. You’ve been given the set of tools to restrict it. Apply them appropriately so you don’t have to see this “disgusting filth” and be done with it.
The rest of us, will apply filters as we see fit, and don’t need someone else to dictate what is and what is not appropriate.
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Kroboz, you are absolutely right.
It’s like if someone were to come in your house and start stocking Maxims on your kids’ bookshelves. Saying “Well they’re gonna see it anyway,” or, “well you should have a different bookshelf” doesn’t change the fact they shouldn’t be pushing unwanted content at me anyway.
Unfortunately, this thread is getting responses from a bunch of possible porn addicts, so they’re just going to think you’re over reacting because many people think it’s normal and fine to watch people have sex. It’s possible that the Plex devs are also porn addicts too, hence the push. And Grave_Digger seems to be okay with the idea of European children watching sex in videos, which is actually straight up grooming:
it amazes me the amount of nudity and sex scenes in european shows kids there see vs here in the states and they have under a 10th of the sexual related problems with their kids than we do. blocking the content doesn’t seem to be the correct answer.
I really hope your kids don’t instantly become porn addicts when they read the word “Sex”. It really is a filthy place this Plex.
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May I remind everyone of the forum guidelines before this thread goes completely off rails (some might claim it already has). Users have a right to have different opinions… while you can disagree, please do so in a civil way!
https://forums.plex.tv/guidelines#heading---civil
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It’s hard for me to understand the logic of some posters here. They are so quick to say that people who don’t want their kids to see inappropriate content should just disable the online media sources. Regardless of the different opinions, I think most reasonable people could agree that the opposite should be true. Those who don’t have concerns over the content, should simply go in and enable it.
The fact is that most people installed and/or purchased Plex to organize and view their own media. When Plex added online streaming content, they should have aired on the side of caution regarding what content was made available.
I have no personal qualms about the content, but the posts here are disturbing.
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The OP was maybe a bit worked up, but he asked for a way so this content wouldn’t be automatically shown to his kids. From there, people on on both sides went to extremes and made many comments. Some who suggest all nudity is bad, and some who really didn’t get the significance of the issue.
The default should be not showing questionable content to those who don’t want to see it. Users who don’t care, can simply enable it. Not sure how that would be a problem.
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I have no issue with admitting that I think nobody should view it, or that it shouldn’t be allowed to be produced, but I’m not the OP. The OP did indeed state that it should be off by default. And I also stated that at minimum, it should be off by default. But I decided to get a little more aggressive, because hey, it seems that there are porn addicts in here who want it to be on by default, because screw the rest of us.
Stop calling us porn addicts Amish woman. By the way, it is not even porn. No movie rated 16 is.
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James bond you were such a naughty boy in 1962.
What I can not understand, if anyone has been to a beach in the last 50 years would know public nudity is not just for the big screen.
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Well, at least the recent activity has generated a ‘Ground-Swell’ of support.
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If those two votes make Plex remove ad-supported content from ANY eyeballs that could generate ‘Ka-Ching’ from it that would be both an Act Of God AND a Miracle - and might make believers out of all of us.
In the ‘Pre-Miracle’ meantime, Overly Concerned Parents should curate Online Media Sources - like I did - not because it was porn, but because of advertising that is far worse than (almost) ANY porn I can think of.
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I’d like to remind everyone to follow the Community Guidelines.
Please be civil and treat each other with respect. There is no room for personal attacks here. If things continue as they are this thread will be closed and deleted.
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Porn is a poor word for both the topic and the conversation.
A better term perhaps, might be non-‘kid safe’.
But what is kid safe?
When I was a kid we didn’t have seat belts, later when we did, we still didn’t wear them.
Today, kids can’t be in a car without a kiddy seat, or on a tricycle without a helmet.
There is a fact of marketing that strongly supports companies using opt out rather than opt in. It has been used for a VERY long time starting before I was born. The earliest I remember was various book clubs where they sent you a new book and charged you for it every month unless you took action to tell them not to.
Now it is used in almost all “free” trials where your credit card is charged unless you cancel before the trial ends. It is also used as “automatic” renewals of memberships like Amazon Prime. The fact that Plex uses it to get more eyeballs on their advertisements that drive extra revenue is not only expected but really good business practice. The fact that it offends a small, but noisy, minority is really quite unimportant as the few that it might cause to leave Plex are more than offset by the income it generates.
Plex will continue to use opt out because it works. The only way they will stop using it is if it stops making them money and that is very much unexpected.
Personally I REALLY prefer opt in so every new feature is off unless I turn it on but that does not work to make companies money.
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Quote from TeknoJunky: A better term perhaps, might be non-‘kid safe’.
Porn is a poor word for both the topic and the conversation.
A better term perhaps, might be non-‘kid safe’.
But what is kid safe?
Then there’s Cotton wool parenting.
Common sense is required when allowing kids access to technology connected to the Internet, full stop.
this which was requested in first post already exists at https://app.plex.tv/desktop#!/settings/online-media-sources
This thread is being closed.
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