News Airlines introduce pron filter to WiFi

[Bindibadgi]

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/10...lter-to-wifi/1

Airlines have confirmed that they are to begin the implementation of anti-pornography filters on their in-flight WiFi Internet access services

[LeMaltor]

One particular incident that is being used to justify the requirement for blocking occurred in March of this year when a woman from Texas filed suit against American Airlines after the company failed to prevent a man from moving into a seat next to her whilst she slept and began “staring at her as he masturbated.”

Don't they have Air Marshals to deal with this sort of stuff?

[Da_Rude_Baboon]

Should the blocking extend to other realms, however – such as, of the top of my head, airline complaint sites, competing carriers flight information, YouTube, torrent sites, or simply websites with Arabic text?

British Airways removed the scene with Richard Branson and all Virgin Airlines advertising from the the inflight version of Casino Royale. If they do it with movies they will do it with internet.

[proxess]

the last flight i was on i had these 2 hawt chicks, one on each side of me. why would i need pr0n?

[bahgger]

I hope they don't use something like FireFox filter because the last time I logged onto bit-tech from a cafe PC it blocked me! ;_; Me thinks the BFGTech OC XXX or whatever speedy brand of hardware got caught in their 'no-no' list of words

[mclean007]

Don't see the problem - the airlines are offering the service, either as a paid extra or as an inclusive value-add to get you to fly with them. It's a commercial service and if you don't like the filtering (be it voip, adult material, high bandwidth content (e.g. P2P, streaming / downloading video), competitors' flight details, online gaming, whatever), vote with your wallet and don't use their wifi or (if you feel that strongly) fly with someone else.

[Xtrafresh]

indeed.

I see much more problems with blocking Skype to be honost. But even then, it's their fking plane, they are allowed to offer whatever service they would like to offer.

On a sidenote:

While obviously distressing – and an example of the fact that some people really do have no working sense of shame – it's worth mentioning that Internet pornography was in no way involved in the case: indeed, the incident would have happened regardless of whether in-flight WiFi was offered or not.

I think it's even the other way around: if the guy had had access to some proper porn, he wouldn't have to stare at her!

[BigD79]

Originally Posted by Bit-tech

...who wants to look at that sort of thing while surrounded by strangers and with absolutely no privacy?

*cough*

[Xtrafresh]

Originally Posted by BigD79

*cough*

That avatar just reached a new level of relix

[Project_Nightmare]

failed to prevent a man from moving into a seat next to her whilst she slept and began “staring at her as he masturbated.”

Kotos to the ultimate pervert! I almost laughted reading that!

[Otto69]

“staring at her as he masturbated.”


Sounds like this guy needs the hot-coffee mod: boiling water dumped in his crotch

[Cupboard]

I suppose the same type of people seeking to join the mile high club may also want access to porn.

[capnPedro]

Blocking porn isn't the problem. The problem is the filter will be crap and will block legitimate sites (BoingBoing goes on about this) etc etc.

[johnmustrule]

Imagine little Timothy getting bored and looking over the seat and getting a full screen view of some hot action D:

[1ad7]

why did I buy this 22" screen laptop if not to watch porn on airplanes... thats ok I only watch bluray porn now so Ill bring my own

I would never even have thought ppl would do such things..

[leexgx]

wunder if thay alow VPN connections still for busniss users (one way to get around to make skype working agane)