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Why I'm Cheering for This New Anti-Porn, Anti-LGBT, Christian Phone Network 

Free market solutions for the win! 

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.13.2026 11:20 AM

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No porn. No sex ed. No queer content. That's the promise of Radiant Mobile, a new cellphone network that launched this month.

And I'm so into it.

Not because I'm personally offended by any of those things, mind you. Regular readers of Reason and/or this newsletter know that I'd be the last to advocate for government bans on such material.

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But that's what makes Radiant Mobile's scheme so great: It doesn't rely on the government. It's a free market solution for people who want to avoid sexuality-tinged or LGBTQ content on their own phones or their kids' phones.

Radiant Mobile's anti-sex phone network, launched on May 5, doesn't demand the state impose a one-size-fits-all solution. It doesn't ask authorities to mandate privacy-invading ID checks on websites and app purchases, or to levy a sin tax on people who want to access porn platforms. It simply offers a way for people to take matters into their own hands.

"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 founder Paul Fisher told MIT Technology Review.

The company is what's known as a mobile virtual network operator. "These operators don't own cell towers but buy bandwidth from the big providers (in this case, T-Mobile) and sell to specific demographics (President Trump announced his own MVNO last year called Trump Mobile; CREDOMobile sends donations to progressive causes)," notes MIT. The Radiant Mobile network "blocks porn, which experts in network security say marks the first time a US cell plan has used network-level blocking........

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