Orange Safeguard

[clv101]

I sometimes read OCUK forums on my Treo650 mobile phone with Orange. Recently my access was blocked by Orange by their new Orange Safeguard tool. It classified the forums as only suitable for people over the age of 18, I submitted the page for review, presumably for a human to check the content, and a response came back a few days later that “the content is confirmed as only suitable for customers over the age of 18”.

I can turn off the Orange Safeguard tool – but that’s not the point, the point is to make to tool work properly. I understand that OCUK forums are suitable for under 18s, is there any material describing the moderation policy etc I can send to Orange to try can get the forums reclassified?

 

[Stringy]

I sometimes read OCUK forums on my Treo650 mobile phone with Orange. Recently my access was blocked by Orange by their new Orange Safeguard tool. It classified the forums as only suitable for people over the age of 18, I submitted the page for review, presumably for a human to check the content, and a response came back a few days later that “the content is confirmed as only suitable for customers over the age of 18”.

I can turn off the Orange Safeguard tool – but that’s not the point, the point is to make to tool work properly. I understand that OCUK forums are suitable for under 18s, is there any material describing the moderation policy etc I can send to Orange to try can get the forums reclassified?

Something in the FAQs about it being a family forum?

 

[Stelly]

shouldnt this be in the mobile phone forum??

Stelly

 

[Stringy]

shouldnt this be in the mobile phone forum??

Stelly

Not really as he's asking for some form of evidence that the forum as a whole is 'kid friendly', not how to change the ringtone on the latest nokia.

edit:

OcUK would like you and your whole family to learn and share via our forums. For this reason swearing and the posting of "adult" or offensive material is forbidden. Simply replacing some of the letters in a swearword with a * or any other character is not acceptable. If you must then please replace the whole word with ***** or other repeated character. We also expect members to behave respectfully and not launch personal or abusive attacks on other members. Those who post for the sole purpose of causing trouble are not welcome here and will be dealt with accordingly.

 

[Dolph]

The classification for safeguard is a bit odd, as the definition of content not suitable for children to access through the Orange network includes 'unmoderated' forums and chatrooms, and the definition of moderation is generally considered to be like ISP owned moderated chatrooms.

Safeguard isn't designed simply to keep people away from pornography, but it's also setup to prevent children accessing other sites (eg social networking, chat with no mods etc etc) in secret.

Best solution is to get the safeguard turned off, in truth if you have a contract phone it should normally default to off anyway.