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Airlines Plan To Filter, Censor In-Flight Internet Access

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the seek-help-if-you-just-can't-make-it-four-hours-without-pr0n dept.

BlueMerle notes that the much-vaunted arrival of internet access in the friendly skies may come at the cost of heavy content filtering by the Airlines. Ars Technica's commentary is prompted by an Associated Press article which does its best to make checking your email seem sinister. "Seat 17D is yapping endlessly on an Internet phone call. Seat 16F is flaming Seat 16D with expletive-laden chats. Seat 16E is too busy surfing porn sites to care. Seat 17C just wants to sleep. Welcome to the promise of the Internet at 33,000 feet -- and the questions of etiquette, openness and free speech that airlines and service providers will have to grapple with as they bring Internet access to the skies in the coming months."

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  1. Re:OMG censorship!!! by nlitement · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Alright, why can't you just keep your laptop to yourself, lean a little bit or something? Now look, I can't imagine ANYONE sane enough to be let on a passenger plane who wants to look at porn and masturbate at the same time (porn without masturbation is an oxymoron) in public, be it an airplane or a bus or whatever. It's always the Internet and content that offends oh-so innocent little fundamental Christian all-American soccer moms and their children, isn't it? Even if you were viewing "NSFW" content, it's up to other passengers to mind their own damned business and not to look at your screen. Might as well buy a screen polarizer.

  2. Sick of Censorship Tag by stewbacca · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    I'm sick of the censorship tag. 300 passengers sitting elbow-to-elbow for hours on end REQUIRES "censorship". What makes everyone think you have the right to do whatever you like on a plane and should be free from censorship in the first place? Better yet, I'll let you access whatever you like, and as soon as you expose a small child to some porn, I'll have your ass thrown in jail as soon as we land.

    You people are forgetting that we can't even bring a pair of nail clippers on board an airplane, and you all want unfettered access to all the seedy corners of the Internet?

    And pray tell, how is NO access at all better than limited access?