Flight Attendants Urge Airline to Block Internet Porn
No porn allowed -- not in the clouds, says American Airline flight attendants.
Just weeks after American Airline started offering in-flight wireless internet, the Association of Professional Flight Attendants is urging the airline to add filters restricting passengers from browsing porn and other inappropriate sites, according to a Bloomberg story. Many passengers and attendants have reportedly complained about the issue.
"It's a tricky door to open,'' said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy and Information Center in Washington, in the Bloomberg story. "Where do you draw the line once you start policing the information your customers can access?''
I'm going to have to side with the flight attendants on this one. It's uncomfortable enough sitting shoulder-to-shoulder with complete strangers in those cramped seats. Sitting next to a stranger watching porn brings "awkward" to a whole new level.
American Air Attendants Urge Filters to Bar Web Porn (Update3) [Bloomberg via CNET]
Learn to Like It...
Bring back the hot flight attendants (they used to call them "stewardesses") and the need to watch porn on board may disappear.
Indeed! the last few times I flew (poast tense because I now refuse to) it seemed like there were as many men as women and all the women were like 50. Eeew.
Block internet porn all you want, I can bring all the porn DVDs I want and the attendants can't do a damn thing about it.
I'm going to have to side with the flight attendants on this one.
I'm here scratching my head. If somebody wants to watch porn, they don't have to be downloading while they are enjoying it.
One would suspect that if they wanted to really watch porn, they would already download it to their laptop, and then have at it, or as I see somebody else saying it, bring your porn DVDs with you.
Since bring your own porn doesn't seem to be such a problem, I suspect that if it is a problem, it's a short term problem just due to the novelty of it.
Who doesn't want to jerk off while they're flying? LOL.
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What is the problem with some porn?
Get over it
It's not the issue of accessing porn over the airplane's wireless internet. It's who you're exposing to the content. Use headphones all you like, you're still exposing whoever is sitting next to you to that content. And if you've ever flown with children behind your row, you know they're looking around. And I'm pretty certain there ARE laws in place regarding exposing minors to pornographic material.
In addition to preventing minors access to pornographic content (yes, I know the internet renders that point moot, but at the least stop them from seeing YOUR porn on the plane), just show some common courtesy to your fellow passengers, as not everyone wants to be watching porn at 30k feet.
They should also make it mandatory to say thank you and please to flight attendants, and have proper eating etiquette. It's uncomfortable enough sitting shoulder-to-shoulder with complete strangers. Bad manners bring it to a whole other level.
They should think about regulating grammar in flights too. I mean, try conversing with someone with bad grammar -- verging on impossible!
And deodorant should be mandatory, of course.
And, obviously, potentially crying children should be sedated; or, better, put in the cargo bay with the animals and such.
not only crying children, it's hard to believe they forgot to filter fat and ugly people.
>.<
It's uncomfortable enough sitting shoulder-to-shoulder with complete strangers in those cramped seats. Sitting next to a fat and sweaty stranger brings the "awkward" level to a whole new level.
nerds make people uncomfortable too. they ought to ban nerds.
How have more primitive/historic cultures dealt with public (or at least, non-private) copulation? Consider all the aboriginals, or even western "civilization" before the advent of central heating --- single sweaty room, etc. You got to watch the real thing...or let others do so while you performed yourself.
Something is desperately wrong with this issue.
Damn, you guys really can't go a day without spanking it, can you? The flight isn't that long. I'm sure you can survive by tugging one out in the airport restroom before and after.
There was a time when porn had enough of a social stigma to keep people from viewing it in public. I'm glad people are more open about sex, but watching porn next to a captive audience is pretty tacky (and maybe so is your keyboard.) It's sounds like a job for a good shunning. Maybe you pay to upgrade to the porn lounge with the hot stewardesses.
Really, you are so addicted to pornography you can't sit for a few hours or even a day without it? I've never seen another passenger on a plane looking at porn on any medium, but if I did, I'd ask the flight attendant to ask the passenger to stop. Planes, while not technically a public place, are filled with under-age passengers who aren't legally allowed to watch pornography in the US. I don't want to have to see it, whether it be on someone's internet browser or DVD player or iPod or whatever, and I have the right not to be subjected to it because of decency laws.
bored. must watch porn. stop looking at my screen you peeper. get your own porn, stop looking at mine.
How long are flights in the US? 1 - 3 hours? People can't go without porn for that long? Really? They MUST watch naked people having sex with each other while getting all sweaty over it and start panting. Maybe they should be in the cargo hold with the animals.
My god! Plus, the plane (incl. a passengers seat) is public space. But no, don't worry about anyone but your little old self. I hope they wash their hands after they've been to the toilet. EWWW!
I agree that no one should be watching porn on an airplane. Thats just ridiculous. I also think that an internet-providing airline has every right to block access to it.
But, very true: This does nothing to stop someone from bringing pornographic movies or magazines onto an airplane. So I'm not sure what difference it would really make.
Does anyone really do this anyway?
That's hilarious! But honestly why would you watch porn on an airplane? There is no place to wax your carrot in privacy. You could always do something more constructive like reading some decent literature, listening to music, or just browsing through The Economist. Honestly some people these days. If you're that desperate then go wack off before you get on the plane rather than on it.
We need more pretty cabin attendants. No need for porn then.
This poses a much bigger problem on the porn front ...
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what about childrens??? do you have any concerns???
If the flight stewardesses were younger and wore mini-skirts like in the 70s and early 80s, then we wouldn't need porn on the flights. Seriously, are we flying here or is this a bad dream with my second grade teacher giving me drinks?
To Mill: On the contrary, Nerds are delicious!
I watch Porn for the story.
I fully support a person's right to watch porn on airline flights. That being said... if you actually do watch porn on your laptop on a crowded airline flight you are a colossal jackass.
If you are allowed to watch porn on airplanes, then I want to hear "fuck" on NBC (and every other channel) and I want to be allowed to walk down the street of my town naked anytime I want without fear of being arrested. No decency rules in one public place means no decency rules in others, as far as I'm concerned.
And for those "what about the children" people? Well, here's a thought - Keep your kid in their fucking seat, because if they pester me again, I'm stuffing the little bastard into the overhead compartment. I didn't pay $500 to sit on this plane and put up with your little terror. You pushed him out, you deal with him. I am not obligated to treat him nicely, and I won't. I hate children. That's why I don't have any. Don't force me to take my frustration out on yours.
Seriously. I mean, really. This is not a joke. I hate decency/moral laws and children. So what?
use a screen blocker or try www.vanishd.com - surf what you want. Don't offend anyone.
Jo you want to watch porn at home that's your problem.Start exposing my kids to it on a plane and that's my problem. An a/c is a public place behave yourself and get over it.
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Of course, that being said, they probably don't want to start http://www.askyakardizi.com competing with ISPs - they need those ISPs to survive.
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Why not just make it clear that you cannot display adult content on the plane, period?
You can currently bring adult magazines, adult movies on your ipod, adult movies on your laptop. Heck, you could videotape it off your tv and watch it on your videocamera if you really needed it that bad onboard a plane.
None of these ways need an internet connection and thus wouldn't have an impact on it...