 Telstra
has been caught out supplying supposedly porn videos through its website
WotNext.com.au. Telstra is charging $1 to download "amateur porn" video
clips of naked women sunbathing and wrestling, Daily Telegraph has
reported.
Telstra launched WotNext in January this year as a site for young bands
to promote their music. However, eight of the 10 most-viewed clips
hosted on the site involve women in states of undress.
Nutter groups have accused the carrier of exploiting young
internet users and demanded the Rudd government intervene.
Women's Forum of Australia director Melinda Tankard Reist told the
paper: The film clips on the site treat young women as sex objects
... all delivered through a part-owned government communications
provider.
The Australian Family Association said that by running the site Telstra
was rotting the minds of young men as well as women. Telstra are
commercially exploiting young people," association spokeswoman
Angela Conway told The Daily Telegraph: They're deliberately
sexualising young people in the most worrying way purely for commercial
exploitation.
However, Telstra said the website was not supposed to show porn and had
ordered a review into its content guidelines. Some of the current
videos and the descriptions on WotNext are an unintended consequence of
the user generated site and fall short of community expectations,
Telstra spokesman Peter Taylor said: But the clips themselves, they
didn't show nudity, they didn't show sex, they were in no way soft porn.
It's all material that would be classified M or below which is the
industry standard.
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