DStv considering porn channel- tannies up in arms...

DStv is looking into a porn channel…

Check this summary of a News24 article from yesterday:

MultiChoice is considering broadcasting pornography and the possibility of creating new sex channels on DStv‘s satellite pay-TV service.

“MultiChoice has been inundated with requests for adult content on DStv over the past few months,” Jackie Rakitla, general manager of corporate affairs at MultiChoice, told Die Burger on Tuesday.

“At this stage we’re merely doing research to determine the extent of interest in adult content, and we’re looking at the feasibility of implementing such a service.”

MultiChoice is using e-mails for market research purposes to test the interest in various broadcasting options, such as the broadcasting of “mixed pornography” (hardcore porn between 21:00 and 05:00 and soft porn between 05:00 and 21:00), hardcore porn 24 hours per day, or soft porn 24 hours per day on DStv.

Now whether this is a good or bad idea is not what’s being discussed here (that’s not the point of this post) – the point is that everybody is, as usual, in a flat panic.

Naturally the comments sections of the articles about this topic were awash with LOADS of bleats along the lines of:

• “I can like to cancel my subscription if they do this!” – literally hundreds in this vein
• “But my kiddies will see it!”
• “Marriages will break up because Jannie will be watching Sannie/Frikkie/Humphrey and Magdalene pretending to ‘fix the pipes’”
• “That is not ayoba!”
• and of course the one oke who cracked: “Finally. With this and rugby the subscription will be worth it”.

Now hang on for just a second before getting on your high horse folks (except for rugby dude of course): do you REALLY think they’ll have the channel wedged between M-Net movies 1 and Cartoon Network? OBVIOUSLY it would be locked behind PIN codes and other methods to control viewing. They’re not that dof!

Everyone likes a good panic, as is clearly evident by all the Facebook protest groups against pretty much everything.

And while we’re on the topic of protest groups, how long do you think it’ll be before the “Boycott DStv if they show porn” Facebook groups start up? My money’s on right now.