Comments on: Denver International Airport’s WiFi Blocking “Racy Sites” http://www.vagabondish.com/denver-international-airports-wifi-blocking-racy-sites/ Dubious tips & essential ephemera for today's curious traveler Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:37:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Kevin Jones http://www.vagabondish.com/denver-international-airports-wifi-blocking-racy-sites/comment-page-1/#comment-6139 Kevin Jones Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:29:36 +0000 http://www.vagabondish.com/denver-international-airports-wifi-blocking-racy-sites/#comment-6139 I for one am glad there is some effort made to keep public spaces from becoming taxpayer-funded adult video arcades. The public libraries are already facing notable problems with furtive onanists who drive away patrons and scare the staff. I for one am glad there is some effort made to keep public spaces from becoming taxpayer-funded adult video arcades.

The public libraries are already facing notable problems with furtive onanists who drive away patrons and scare the staff.

]]> By: Sean http://www.vagabondish.com/denver-international-airports-wifi-blocking-racy-sites/comment-page-1/#comment-6123 Sean Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:05:15 +0000 http://www.vagabondish.com/denver-international-airports-wifi-blocking-racy-sites/#comment-6123 This sounds like they are using SmartFilter, which is an proxying system that is notoriousfor a couple different reasons. First off, they miscatorgorzie sites all the time and getting off the list is near impossible. Second is they support blocking access to the internet in for regimes like Syria and Saudia Arabia. BoingBoing has a whole series of posts detailing how they had some story that had a picture that contained nudity in it a while ago and how it has been trying to get removed. http://www.boingboing.net/2006/02/27/boingboing-banned-in.html I hate to see our public areas becoming so swept up in the fear of what a couple of perverts might look at that they step on the freedom for the rest of us and allow a company like Smartfileter to flourish. This sounds like they are using SmartFilter, which is an proxying system that is notoriousfor a couple different reasons. First off, they miscatorgorzie sites all the time and getting off the list is near impossible. Second is they support blocking access to the internet in for regimes like Syria and Saudia Arabia.

BoingBoing has a whole series of posts detailing how they had some story that had a picture that contained nudity in it a while ago and how it has been trying to get removed.

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/02/27/boingboing-banned-in.html

I hate to see our public areas becoming so swept up in the fear of what a couple of perverts might look at that they step on the freedom for the rest of us and allow a company like Smartfileter to flourish.

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