Youths urged to be responsible with phones

YOUTHS should use their smartphones for educational purposes, chief censor Jim Abani says.
“Be responsible viewers, readers and listeners when using different mediums of communication technology,” he said.
Abani spoke at the Gordon Seventh-day Adventist church in Port Moresby recently where the Office of Censorship conducted an awareness session.
The awareness covered topics on the national censorship policy objectives, stand on gender-based violence, use of social media and enforcement and compliance roles with more emphasis on pornography.
“Our young people need to be guided to uphold self-respect and human decency,” Abani said.
“Always practice self-respect in what you digest daily through the different mediums of communication.
“The Office of Censorship’s goal is to uphold values of self-respect and human decency and to promote higher moral values, by ensuring a clean feed through the media and information content for public consumption.”