Windows 8: Not Porn Friendly
This article here talks about the porn policies of all the major consumer-oriented cloud data services, revealing industry-wide unwillingness to give clear answers to simple questions like “can I store my porn on your service? And if not, why not?”
For me the eye-opener was Microsoft, however, which has draconian anti-porn policies (you’re not allowed to store “nudity of any sort” on their SkyDrive service). “Fine”, I’m thinking, “because I don’t want cloud data services anyway.” And then I saw this bit:
SkyDrive is connected to your Microsoft account. If Microsoft suspends your SkyDrive, you also lose access to any connected Outlook or Office software or Windows Phone and Xbox 360 devices. This incredibly strict code of conduct could end up cutting off other services you depend on.
And another problem: Microsoft is pushing you to use SkyDrive in Windows 8 and Office 2013. SkyDrive is deeply embedded into the Windows 8 OS.
Depending on what “deeply embedded” turns out to mean in practice, this could mean that if you work in an adult-oriented industry, you’re be unable to safely use a Windows box once Windows 8 achieves widespread distribution. Awesome!
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This is potentially exciting news. If Windows 8 is sufficiently unfriendly to porn, that might cause mass conversion to freer operating systems!
Once upon a time there was this wonderful idea… a free internet. Guess that has well and truly gone the way of the paperless society we were promised.
It would not surprise me to find that it could be shown that porn has been behind more technological advances than the moon race.
I’d love to know exactly what sort of apocalypse they think these anti-porn policies will be preventing…
They’re not banning only nudity but also religious intolerance and “gratuitous violence”.
Wouldn’t that latter include a lot of the games on their own XBOX?
It just occured to me that perhaps the expanded article in the linky could satisfy my curiousity, so I somewhat reluctantly clicked on the site.
My thinking was it was probably just more of the same old needless, poorly justified, inane anti-porn bull that I’ve grown used to over the decades, and I wasn’t disappointed, er, or rather I WAS…
If I read it correctly, Tom and Jerry cartoons that I watched as a kid are now banned because they wear no pants or other clothing, and they are non-human forms.
WTF!!!???
Not to mention the objection to the cartoon’s gratuitous violence… I’m also guessing there goes the coyote and road runner cartoons as well, those tasmanian devil ‘toons, rootin’,tootin’, Yosemite Sam, depictions of Daffy Duck getting his beak shot off…
Oh, and forget storing even a drawing of the Venus de Milo for that term or thesis paper.
Hell, you could lose access to your Microsoft storage for sharing a photoshopped depiction of Mitt Romney’s wife in a sleveless dress, because Mormons would consider it a vulgar expression to show any part of her body which would normally be covered by her special Mormon “magic underwear”, when properly worn. Seriously…
Yup! No depictions of burkha/chador/hijab-wearing Muslim women caught wildly showing their ankles, elbows, or necks. That would be too offensive as well…
[without reading the article yet] I’m hoping this is just alarmist, but if I can’t store porn on my Windows 8 machine… forget about that Win 8 upgrade I was planning, maybe I can still get Windows 7 for cheap somewhere? I can’t help but think that they’re not going to check every single file you have stored on your computer looking for porn, that’s just crazy. I would believe that they would police copyrighted material before they policed porn (although those two issues may be closely linked anyways). I’ll have to look into how deeply embedded skydrive is. It’s not like I use my skydrive account much as it is, much less share porn over a cloud service.
Hello OpenOffice/LibreOffice and Linux boxes. Although considering the needs of many pornographers to do graphics work, I imagine they’ll start heading to Mac as well.
If you don’t have it stored on your own silicon, you don’t really own it. That’s the problem with clouds.
Precisely, Pat.
What’s the point of using SkyDrive?