This app censors your phone in a stunning new way — and people are using it on purpose

The useful part

The battle for censorship online has been raging on social media for more than a decade. Netizens have clamored for unfettered free speech, while their detractors say that some things are better left not said. However, one chat with the app's founder is likely to put that idea to bed.

How it works

• Somewhere in the middle, though, exists a new app that is going viral for one line: "Jesus is watching you!" 'Half of the songs nowadays have no clean version.' A post seen by more than 1 million people on...
• The app is called Verso, and while on its face it is indeed an app designed to help censor music, the application's stated intent is to fill in the gap of parental control settings on streaming services by...
• Citing that around 92% of today's top streaming songs are explicit, Verso says it wants to put parents and families in control of what they hear.
• Co-founder Jonathan Bernal told Blaze News directly that he left his former job with the Google Gemini AI team because he wanted to use his skills to develop technology that supports the family unit, unlike...
• "Half a billion families are listening to music, and half of the songs nowadays have no clean version," he said.

What to take from it

"Parents are constantly reaching for the mute or skip button." In order ensure a listening experience in which parents don't have...

Details worth keeping

"Kids hear everything," Verso says in its video.