I just really wanted to bring awareness to any parents out there who let there children have access to the Kindle Fire products. I bought two for my children only to discover that in the App Store under Entertainment, right next to apps that children would be drawn to (ie, The Snowman, WWF etc) were FREE porn apps - I could not believe that on a product marketed at families, my children were one click away from accessing free porn. I applied parental restrictions but the apps were still visible. The only way to delete these apps is to delete the whole App Store from the device.
I contacted Amazon and they basically tried to say it must be a bad batch and that they had not come across this before. I returned the products but felt very concerned that the company were not bothered by this, even though David Cameron has pledged to make it harder for children to access porn on the Internet. Here is a household name company making it FREELY available in an App Store.
However, last week when visiting a friend, she happened to mention that her son had got a Kindle Fire for his birthday and I asked if I could check out the App Store as explained that I had bought two from a 'dodgy batch'. But my friend and I were both shocked to see at last 7 Free Porn apps in the entertainment section such as HOt India Babes/ Espanol Sex/ SEx positions etc. my friend clicked on one to see what would happen if her son had done the same and it opened up graphic porn pictures with links to more hardcore porn sites.
IS THIS ACCEPTABLE AMAZON???
No one seems to be taking this seriously or interested at all and I cannot believe I am the only parent outraged by this disgusting disregard for our children.
I have contactd watchdog, The Daily Mail and The Guardian and none of the reporters have responded. Are they in Amazons pocket?
I am turning to you lovely mums out there to let you know so that you can check your Kindle Fires for these apps and please if you find them on there and think like me, please let me know so we can get this to public attention.
Thank you!
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Lilypie10 · 10/02/2013 10:34
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