apple iphone Stop "sexting"

In 2009, the 15-year-old Pennsylvania School Girl Marissa Miller does not expect to be involved in a very strange case. Prosecutors accused George Miller sent nude photos to others through their mobile phone , and give her two paths: either to accept 10-hour pornography and sexual crimes on legal education courses, or face criminal charges.

Now something like Marissa that is completely avoided.

Apple received a patent for technology that allows it to read text messages before they're sent and censor or block them as needed. TechCrunch immediately described this as a patent on an "anti-sexting device" -- because the surest path to getting big Web traffic is to put the word "sexting" in a headline (you clicked on this story, didn't you?), despite the fact that "sexting" appears nowhere in the patent documents posted online. That was enough to incite the usual blogger stampede.

"In media-player applications, when a user makes a particular type of contact (e.g., three- or four-finger contact), a graphical object appears on the display surface at or near the point of contact," the patent reads. "The user can then adjust a parameter (e.g., volume, radio tuner, equalization) of a song or other audio source by making a twisting motion."

The patent was first applied for in December 2006, before the launch of the first iPhone, and credits Bas Ording, Scott Forstall, Greg Christie, Stephen Lemay and Imran Chaudhri as the inventors. It also covers the manipulation of options by increasing or decreasing the amount of pressure applied at the contact location. "In media-player applications, when a user makes contact with the display surface, a graphical object of a radio interface can be displayed," the patent reads.

"These techniques also may be used, in accordance with instructional embodiments, to require the administered devices to include certain text in messages," the patent adds. "These embodiments might, for example, require that a certain number of Spanish words per day be included in e-mails for a child learning Spanish."

U.S. law does not prohibit adult sexual content, related network and mobile software technology necessary to build a strong "firewall" between adults and minors. Finally, there is a clear social responsibility.