[ Thanks to Ian MacGregor for this
link. ]
“I am on a quest to rid the android market of certain
apps.“For the past year I have seen the Android Market fill up with
apps of lascivious and copyrighted content. You can search the
Android Market for the following keywords and see quite a bit of
content that I feel shouldn’t be available to customers, and
definitely not to children: nude, sex, porn, 18+, adults only,
boobs, the android market seems to be turning into a porn hub. I am
also seeing developers release apps which are entire books, fashion
photos and videos which are surely copyrighted. These apps violate
the Android Market Content Policy for Developers available here. If
you’re going to develop apps for a certain platform under a
developer agreement, then you should adhere to that agreement or
refrain from developing apps for that platform. As far as I know,
there is no such agreement for uploading content to the internet.
My point is, if you make a promise, keep that promise at all
costs.“I have sent email messages to T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T in
an attempt to bring this to the attention of the phone carriers. I
urge anyone with an android phone to file an official complaint
with their carrier, there is power in numbers. If you are
interested in making a polite complaint to your phone carrier,
please consider using the below letter as a template:”