Wi-Fi Porn to Be Blocked, American Airlines Says in Reversal

Might as well check your trenchcoat with the Skycap, fellas; American Airlines has reversed course and decided to filter pornographic content on its in-flight Internet service. You'll recall that flight attendants had been pressuring the airline to block porn because they didn't want to police pervs who can't go a couple hours without pleasuring themselves to Edward Penishands or Sex Trek: The Next Penetration. Wired reports that Girls Against Porn has also been lobbying American to install filters, citing a lawsuit against American over a particularly nauseating masturbatory incident that, incidentally, occurred without pornographic inspiration. Of course privacy rights advocates are alarmed that once airlines take away the pornos, they'll start blocking other sites like maybe all the ones trashing American Airlines.

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By John Del Signore in News on October 14, 2008 11:00 AM

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NannyState

Damn. Now I'll have to fly Continental.

Steven

Can't you use a proxy to get on the porn sites?

drewo

That's okay, as long as my office doesn't block Gothamist's "Authentically Brasilian Cabana" rum ads.

Splicer

What if a person brings their own porn?

MrCow

i doubt it will be hard to get around whatever they set up to block it

moocowtoo

Looks like its back to taking the train for me.

RoDogg

As long as we can still have sex in the bathroom, I'm good!

ides_of_march

Jet Blueballs

babyhitler

I'm ambivalent on porn, on one hand it destroys young naive girls lives. On the other, those young naive girls have smoking bodies.

Pull My Finger

Whats this world comming to when you can'T yank your crank in the middle oF a crowded plane?

ides_of_march

"Of course privacy rights advocates are alarmed ..."

Since when is sitting on a commercial aircraft with hundreds of other people considered a private place?

Anyway, maybe this can help prevent the next hijacking. Distract the box-cutter wielding idiot by shouting "hey Abdul, look, she's not wearing a burqa!"