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Radiant Mobile Launches on T‑Mobile With Hard Porn Block, Network‑Level Filters

A hard porn ban with broad filtering rules raises unresolved technical and civil‑liberties questions.

Overview

  • Radiant Mobile, which drew detailed coverage Wednesday, launched as a Christian‑focused reseller on T‑Mobile with faith programming and carrier‑level filtering.
  • The service enforces a permanent pornography block for all accounts, while other categories use age rules and include unexpected labels such as hacker news, piercing, and fashion models.
  • The company says its filters also work on Wi‑Fi and can act before a user’s VPN, a claim not yet verified that raises questions about overblocking and data handling.
  • Radiant uses filtering tech from Israeli firm Allot, and a T‑Mobile representative told MIT Technology Review it works with the MVNO through manager CompaxDigital as legal and policy questions persist.
  • Plans start at $30 a month for unlimited 5G, targeting families who want controls that are hard to bypass, even as experts like David Choffnes warn the approach is too blunt.