I thought this was just the spotpass aspect of it? Closing the whole feature because kids like to send naked pictures of eachother is stupid, ESPECIALLY when the handheld in question has parental controls that can prevent this from happening in general.

WHAT
WHY
NINTENDO DONT UNDERMINE YOUR WHOLE *CRAG*ING OPERATION JESUS

To confirm, only the SpotPass mode of SwapNote/Letter Box/whatever you call it in your particular country has been disabled. I've heard one theory that this is due to people exchanging friend codes en-masse with random people on the web for Pokemon friend safari stuff who then start receiving inappropriate images via SwapNote, and another theory that this move is in preparation for the imminent release of Miiverse on 3DS (somewhat backed up by the fact that the same kind of abuse could potentially occur on the still-online Wii U Chat app).

Online interactions not rated by the ESRB
*crag* people why don't you get this

Because it's clearly Nintendo's fault if people abuse their system and/or parents fail to regulate their children's online activity. Nintendo has been forced to take the lesser of two media backslashes here.

this is just like how they discontinued the DS wed browser cart because you could view porn with it

I can view porn with the Wii browser

Remember back when everyone was panicking over how perverts and/or stalkers could abuse Picton hate because of its twenty-foot wireless functionality?

*pictochat
Dammit auto-correct.

*believe in life after love
Dammit auto-tune