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You can't read Perez Hilton's website at the Denver airport
Don't bother checking out Boing-Boing, either. Denver International Airport officials say they're erring on the side of caution in blocking access to certain sites through the free Internet browser offered to fliers. But they don't have a problem with airport newsstands displaying Penthouse or Playboy. (Denver Post)
March 5, 2008 | Permalink
Comments
The Thought Police are hard at work.
Posted by: Jack | Mar 5, 2008 9:03:12 AM
ewww - who'd go to that site anyway!?
Posted by: Rusty | Mar 5, 2008 9:11:09 AM
"Officials preferred to deal with infrequent blocking complaints rather than angry parents whose children walked by a screen showing pornography, Cannon said"
Well, if that's the case they should quit selling Playboy and Hustler in their airports.....but then they won't make as much money then....
Posted by: twerp | Mar 5, 2008 9:14:21 AM
THAT'S IT!! The internet is cutting into their magazine sales revenue so they're blocking all of the fun sites so that it would boost sales.
That's the real reason behind all this..
Posted by: twerp | Mar 5, 2008 9:20:44 AM
You get what you pay for.
I'll remember to bring my airport-viewing pornography on my own hard-disk, so i can still get my jollies and offend trash that really should mind their own business. I don't start at your boobs when you nurse, why are you looking over my shoulder at my laptop?
Posted by: Sean, Torrington CT | Mar 5, 2008 9:21:36 AM
Who in their right mind would even want to visit a web page run by a fat ugly gay guy?
It's a free service though and they can do what they desire with it. Don't like their rules, access the intenet another way.
Posted by: The Asshole Guy | Mar 5, 2008 9:23:14 AM
Thank goodness you don't start at my boobs, or else you'd be finished. ;o)
Posted by: jilldini | Mar 5, 2008 9:37:34 AM
Whole Foods blocks relatively innocent sites, too. Gawker is one.
Posted by: Jim Romenesko | Mar 5, 2008 10:01:42 AM
As long as they don't block obscurestore.com. It is kind of odd that they allow the magazine stands to sell Playboy or Penthouse. It would be a little freaky to be waiting for your plane and the guy next to you is reading Penthouse magazine (for the articles of course).
Posted by: G-Man | Mar 5, 2008 10:11:47 AM
Perez Hilton? Blechh. Still, that doesn't mean he should be censored.
I think the Denver airport is being very restrictive in its filtering to avoid being slapped with lawsuits by prudish busybodies. Remember, Denver is just up the road from Colorado Springs, the Christian wingnut's Vatican.
Posted by: Phranqlin | Mar 5, 2008 10:27:31 AM
whoop de friggin do
Posted by: lawdog | Mar 5, 2008 10:32:48 AM
aand score one for our law(yer)dog! quoting one of the Supremes, His Honor Clarence Thomas, his own self!
Posted by: nellagain | Mar 5, 2008 10:37:41 AM
"Give people some credit," said David Byrne, founder of the legendary art-rock band Talking Heads, who was blocked from boingboing.net. while connecting through DIA to an Aspen workshop last month. "And the more credit you give them, the more they respond. It's just trusting people's discretion."
Bull****. You are all morons, some one needs to control you - Dick Cheney
Posted by: Ted | Mar 5, 2008 11:48:07 AM
Let's see if their morals and pocket book lines up:
DIA just charge extra to go to "provocative" sites.
I think if they can figure that out, you will see the only thing they care about is MONEY.
Posted by: Ted | Mar 5, 2008 11:51:19 AM
THANKS BIG BROTHER FOR KEEPING ME SAFE AGAIN...........RIGHT...SCREW THEM.
Posted by: ULTRA | Mar 5, 2008 12:50:35 PM
If you want 'whacking material' at the airport, you will just have to buy a magazine like in 1980's 'Airplane!'
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080339/
Posted by: Charles Brobst | Mar 5, 2008 1:41:00 PM
I've said it before, I'll say it again.
We're living in a police state.
Posted by: Lydia | Mar 5, 2008 6:42:25 PM
Sheesh, Whole Foods has Wifi?
Jim, what has the world came to that a somewhat over priced supermarket thinks you will be hauling around a laptop?
And tries to digitally burn books.
Posted by: Icecycle | Mar 5, 2008 6:58:06 PM
I know it's late--the power's been off all flippin' day.
You know what I got out of this? I got a business that is forced to do business with the kind of families that can afford to sue the hell out of you, blocking questionable content from their wifi connects.
Am I the only parent who doesn't give a rat's butt if my kids see hoo-hoos and such? Fer cryin' out loud, it's just sex. Everyone grows up eventually, and if you act like it's no big deal, the kids won't need therapy.
The other thing I got out of this was that Denver's airport code is "DIA." Die in a what? A fire? I swear, that's just funny. However, just because I've decided to be superstitious, I don't think I'll be using that airport, thanks. Bad karma and all that.
Posted by: Soo | Mar 5, 2008 9:28:23 PM
Soo....isn't the term DOA (dead on arrival)? Not sure I get the DIA reference.
Posted by: Cherie | Mar 6, 2008 3:40:35 AM
Cherie, there's a popular acronym, DIAF, which means "die in a fire." I thought it sweet irony that an airport with a pretty shoddy record, which is now purposefully limiting the happiness of its customer base, would have the first three letters of that acronym as its code.
Granted, I had been up very late thanks to a power outage in my 'hood, and found a lot of things rather funny. It's getting worse thanks to the fact that I got up rather early and discovered that my apartment complex now has electricity, but no water. So I'm operating on about 4 hours of sleep, a week's worth of groceries spoiled in my fridge yesterday, and I didn't get a shower this morning nor can I make any Earl Grey.
We are no longer amused.
Posted by: Soo | Mar 6, 2008 5:38:27 AM
This reminds me of a time I was in a New Mexico hotel. I'm usually awake before everyone. This time I went to the lobby to mess around on the internet. I checked out my email, Yahoo, some newspapers, Sundance short films, etc. Then I tried to go to astrologyzone.com to read my horoscope. Their system blocked me because they list it as occult material.
I couldn't bring myself to complain that they were blocking my occult access.
Posted by: Displaced | Mar 6, 2008 7:42:00 AM
Occult? That's New Mexico for yah...there's a reason that state gets so much welfare cash thrown its way :D
Posted by: Sean, Torrington CT | Mar 6, 2008 7:46:37 AM
no loss there. plus the internet at denver is free, they dont HAVE to give you free internet and you don't have to use it.
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