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 suzannereed rated 7 months ago - From the page: "DENVER - Travelers using Denver International Airport's free Wi-Fi service cannot visit Internet sites that airport officials consider provocative.
A report in The Denver Post says the airport is blocking Vanity Fair magazine's Web site, the hipster site boingboing....
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- Jewfro-Macabbi rated 7 months ago
- Thanks for blogging this Suzann
Yep that pesky little thing called the first amendment. People have somehow been convinced that it's perfectly okay for private companies to violate the first amendment and a host of other rights. It's not. Incorporation of a business idea does not give special powers allowing them to decide what's appropriate for the rest of us. I'm also quite sick of this whole fear of *pornography*. I surf the net all the time - it's a very rare thing to randomly encounter porn. If I had children I'd much rather risk they be exposed to some random pornography while living as free people, rather than be *protected* by the nanny, police state.
- suzannereed rated 7 months ago
- From the page: "DENVER - Travelers using Denver International Airport's free Wi-Fi service cannot visit Internet sites that airport officials consider provocative.
A report in The Denver Post says the airport is blocking Vanity Fair magazine's Web site, the hipster site boingboing.net and others.
Airport spokesman Chuck Cannon says officials decided to block access to potentially racy sites when the airport made its wireless internet service free in November.
Cannon says the airport would rather deal with infrequent complaints about access than handle angry parents whose children might see pornography.
Critics say the airport is using the same technology used by repressive regimes in Sudan and Kuwait."
What qualifies anyone at DIA or any other organization to judge what is considered "provocative"? Anyone ever hear of this pesky little thing called the First Amendment???
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