New Christian cell phone service will block all LGBTQ+ web content by default

[Jessica_Rose ✅]

New Christian cell phone service will block all LGBTQ+ web content by default

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/05/new-christian-cell-phone-service-will-block-all-lgbtq-web-content-by-default/ 🔗

Daniel Villarreal (5 May 2026)

Today marks the launch of Radiant Mobile, a Christian cell phone network that automatically blocks all pornographic, "satanic," and "cult" content. The service, which buys its bandwidth from T-Mobile's national tower network, will also reportedly roll out a filter that blocks all LGBTQ+ content, including web material related to gender and trans issues, according to MIT Technology Review. The filter will be optional but turned on by default on all phones.

"We are going to create — and we think we have every right to do so — an environment that is Jesus-centric, that is void of pornography, void of LGBT, void of trans," Radiant Mobile's founder, Paul Fisher, told the aforementioned publication.

The anti-LGBTQ+ filter could include "sites that provide information on sex, sex and teenagers, and sexual education, without pornographic content," including pages and sites with educational health content or journalistic content about LGBTQ+-related entertainment or legislation.

Radiant Mobile's filter would likely block a website's individual webpages that feature LGBTQ+ content. But if the website's most popular pages began regularly featuring queer content, eventually Radiant Mobile's filtering system could block the entire site, Fisher said.

[Lori Dee ✅]

Does that mean they can't access the White House's Executive Orders, or other government regulations, or even news reports about what this Administration is doing? I wonder whether the filter just looks for keywords or has an AI Moderator or algorithm.

I suppose if people want to bury their heads in the sand and ignore any reality that wasn't written by a cleric, that is their choice.

A mind is like a parachute.
It must be open to work.

[Liz K]

Does that mean they can't access the White House's Executive Orders, or other government regulations, or even news reports about what this Administration is doing? I wonder whether the filter just looks for keywords or has an AI Moderator or algorithm.

I suppose if people want to bury their heads in the sand and ignore any reality that wasn't written by a cleric, that is their choice.

A mind is like a parachute.
It must be open to work.

I'm pretty familiar with web filtering technology.  Some just look at URLs and DNS names and compare them to an allow/block list.  Some use keyword filters.  Sophisticated filters use AI and machine learning.  Any of those methods will include the ability to whitelist certain sites.  So yes, the White House and any other 'safe' sites would be accessible regardless of content.

A key limitation of web filtering is that encrypted traffic (HTTPS/SSL) needs to be decrypted before content can be inspected.  Doing that requires a massively scaled decryption proxy and a security certificate on every device.  Decryption is essentially a man-in-the-middle attack from the consumer's perspective.  It creates huge privacy issues.  Maybe the folks signing up for this service are okay with that.  I wouldn't regardless of my leanings.

On the bright side, anyone with one of those phones won't be able to troll Susan's or any LGBTQ+  website.

[Northern Star Girl ✅]

  @Liz K
Dear Liz:
Thank you for your explanation regarding the cell phone and web filtering
as it relates to this NEWS article.
Very informative.  Much appreciated.
HUGS, Danielle [Northern Star Girl]

I'm pretty familiar with web filtering technology.  Some just look at DNS names and compare them to a block list.  Some use keyword filters.  Sophisticated filters use AI and machine learning.  Any of those methods will include the ability to whitelist certain sites.  So yes, the White House and any other 'safe' sites would be accessible regardless of content.

On the bright side, anyone with one of those phones won't be able to troll Susan's or any LGBTQ+  website.