We read:
"Travelers using Denver International Airport 's free Wi-Fi service cannot visit Internet sites that airport officials consider provocative. And what kinds of dubious sites are being restricted? The airport is blocking Vanity Fair magazine's website, the hipster site boingboing 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, the Denver Post reports.
Cannon says the airport would rather deal with infrequent complaints about access than handle angry parents whose children might see pornography. Airport officials say they're using prudent judgment in a public, family-friendly atmosphere. But others see it as cyber-censorship that taints Denver's self-portrayal as a progressive economy.
Critics, like boingboing editor Xeni Jardin and others, point out that DIA uses the same kinds of software filters employed by the repressive regimes of Sudan and Kuwait. Jardin is tired of her tech-update site getting blocked by private and government filters just because it occasionally posts respected artworks that might include nudity.
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I guess it's their right if it's a private company that owns and runs the airport but that seems unlikely. It is in any case another instance of allowing the thin skin of one or two people to dictate to the majority.
