Comments on: Denver Airport Decides to Censor Free Wi-Fi

By: John

John — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:02:35 +0000

So the only reason I stumbled onto this discussion is because im actually at the denver airport right now on my laptop and I did a google search to try and figure out why I cant get on facebook or stream last nights episode of heroes from nbc.com

so facebook and heroes was deemed potentially offensive enough to get blocked?
really denver?!
WOW!

By: Boomer The Dog

Boomer The Dog — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I know that libraries often block sites with pornography themes because the government makes them do it but Boing would be okay because it’s information links. An airport wouldn’t have an educational or free speech obligation though. I wonder if they would take it further and block information about other services outside of the airport that they were competing with? It could come to that..

By: soulxtc

soulxtc — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

@Boomer
One you start allowing censorship its a slippery slope because one guys porn is another’s art or poetry

By: Gamer8585

Gamer8585 — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Well Airports are private so they can do whatever they want with their network however I think its wrong headed and demeaning to tell people what they can and cannot view. I think the only way around this is for people to complain en mass and generate loads of bad press.

By: soulxtc

soulxtc — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Why are airports private? With all the feds and metal detectors it seems to me the opposite is true.

By: Simpsim

Simpsim — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I guess they are and they aren’t depending upon which way you look at it. They will get away with it simply because they’re playing the “inappropriate for children” card. Still the fact that it could be used for anti-competetive purposes is a definate worry.

By: Spurge

Spurge — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Bloody hell why does everything have to be safe for children? Is this the world we want to live in as adults?
I’m sick of the control police using this children protection thing as a reason for censoring and control.
Parents take responsibility for your own children if you want control move to a communist country.

By: moneoa

moneoa — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Vanity Fair is Pornography? wtf?

By: DrewWilson

DrewWilson — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Fantastic. I can see it now.

“Google has been blocked because of pornography. A message brought to you by the Yahoo! search engine.”

*shivers*

By: Burd

Burd — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

The parents should be told to turn on the damn parental control software that just about any computer comes with. Why do parents today want OTHER people to raise their kids for them? The kids are growing up in such a “controlled” society that–by the time they get to be adults–they’re going to be mere robots.

As for the comment on libraries our Library here at the college does NOT censor anything. Our ITD Department tried to at one time but the Librarians went berserk and the censorship was quickly shut down. The American Library Association categorically rejects censorship of any kind.

So the airport should tell the parents to be responsible for their own children. It’s not up to the airport or to anyone else–for that matter–to baby sit.