{"id":6012,"date":"2008-11-17T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T07:12:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-11-17T09:12:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T07:12:00","slug":"mxit-gets-new-safety-controls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/6012-mxit-gets-new-safety-controls.html","title":{"rendered":"MXit gets new safety controls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mobile chat and information-sharing service, which has up to 10 million users, will in the next few weeks introduce a new parental-control function that will allow parents to disable adult or public chatrooms for minors.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes after The Times reported last week that 21-year-old Jean-Pierre Botes allegedly lured two Pretoria schoolgirls to his home after chatting to them on MXit.<\/p>\n<p>Botes appeared in the Pretoria North Magistrate&rsquo;s Court, where he pleaded guilty to a charge of abduction.<\/p>\n<p>MXit chief executive Herman Heunis said he was hoping to implement the feature before the school holidays.<\/p>\n<p>Read about the safety feature at http:\/\/www.mxit.com\/web\/parents.htm.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chat network MXit is implementing parental controls to stop children abusing the service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}