Over WiFi at DIA, free speech is DOA
Summary: SI model Jessica Gomes, if you must know.Our own Maggie Reardon expands on a Denver Post story that notes the Denver International Airport has chosen to block Wi-Fi access to such sites as boingboing.
SI model Jessica Gomes, 
if you must know.
Our own Maggie Reardon expands on a Denver Post story that notes the Denver International Airport has chosen to block Wi-Fi access to such sites as boingboing.net, the website of Vanity Fair magazine, and even the web link to Sports Illustrated's swimsuit issue.
Maggie notes that the airport's spokesman Chuck Cannon told the Associated Press on Wednesday that he would rather "weather infrequent complaints about access than handle angry parents whose children might see pornography."
Well, excuse me. Aren't magazines with far more "pornographic" sold at DIA newsstands? And how many children would be Web surfing via WiFi at any airport?
Well, I suppose that if you and a couple of your kids are at the gate, waiting on a plane, and a guy sits next to your brood and directs his Wi-Fi enabled notebook to the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue landing page, well, would your kid is on the road to ruin.
One more note of hypocrisy. Some of the same parents who presumably would complain about access to the SI swimsuit issue over airport WiFi might be proud of their son, nephew, sister, husband, etc., for fighting for "our freedoms" in Iraq.
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These same freedom fighter are at the front of organizing dips in taxes,
Griping about
Free speech is also
property.
Were you complaining as loudly when religious proselytizing
was banned at airports?
I didn't think so.
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Tell me: what on *EARTH* does the complex issue of access to publically-visible "offensive content" (and the knotty problems of defining "offensive") have to do with the war in Iraq?
I suppose that some columnists revile the United States military so much that they'll twist any story to grind that particular axe.
...Bonus points for including the superfluous cheesecake shot, though. Exploit much?
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Previous message directed at rtirman37...
I guess I'm one of those knuckle-dragging "drop-outs" who have no place "in a high technology session" (whatever that means).
RE: Over WiFi at DIA, free speech is DOA
The assult weapon ban is an infringement on those rights.
Furthermore, the weapons can be used to protect against hostile opponents.
The porno defiles those who produce it, those who consume it, and those who distribute it, but benefits nobody.
Let's make the porno illegal, and legalize the weapons.
Get your priorities straight, people...
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Also, be a tech reporter not a HuffPo tool. Avoid the mindless ad-hominem attacks on the troops and their families. It just makes you look like bitter and unqualified.