Comments on I Don't Know, Curt. What Do You Think About Web Censorship?

Sometimes I wish I was still in Seattle, especially times like this, but Denver never did any "holiday tree" crap so I guess it evens out somewhat.

If you come back to Seattle, I'll let you fuck me.

The Onion's "aggressive profanity"? Zuh?

Bloggers need opinions to be worth reading, but you can overdo it. You know, by picking pointless fights (ECB). Or pulling opinions straight out of your ass (Feit). Or by scouring the web every day to regurgitate only a carefully chosen kind of story that supports your narrow agenda (that guy who does the youth pastors and the pit bulls).

But yeah, the PI has been getting bad advice from their interweb market research.

Whoa whoa whoa, elenchos. ECB and Dan Savage are the main reasons to come to Slog save Adrian! and Schmader.

But yeah, Feit...pfft.

Did Dan just give David Postman a reach-around?

Eli doesn't have opinions and always solicits readers for theirs -- so what's the big deal?

Boing Boing is lucky David Byrne had their site blocked. Celebrities are the only ones who can save us.

Ha, Mr. Poe, don't be silly. If that were true, then I'd be nothing but a biter, always letting them make me see red with their simple bait. I couldn't possibly be that gullible.

“the same kinds of software filters employed by the repressive regimes of Sudan and Kuwait.”

Do these repressive regimes use MS Office too?!

I'm against censorship but I think a reasonable argument can be made for placing restrictions on a free service that one might otherwise be willing to pay for - so long as there are still unrestricted pay-for-service hot-spots at DIA.

Who reads daily newspaper blogs, again?

They don't want travelers reading about all the conspiracy theories surrounding DIA...

What about Google image searches?

Just adjust your preferences on Google's site and you can get everything that is good!

Yeah, well, if you don't want to play by their rules, you don't have to use their FREE wi-fi service. Pay for your own service and you can go to amy website you want. It's hardly censorship.

Umvue, you obviously haven't been to DIA - there are no unrestricted hot spots; it's in the middle of bum-fuck nowhere. But you can still access the net through your Verizon or AT&T card, albeit on your own dime.

I got really nervous going to the Onion in an airport and then watching a video entitled, "Reporters Expose Security Lapses by Blowing Up Plane." Considering you can't say the "b" word, I don't know how I would explain myself...

1.6k, you obviously make some unfounded assumptions. DIA is in the middle of KS but they have technology. It's been an eternity but I've used Boingo to get AT&T wifi there.

According to T-mobile and AT&T websites (and probably others) they still provide wifi at DIA that you can pay for and I'll bet you can use 'em to look at nekkid pitchers too.

Well, duh, that's exactly what I said. (Excuse me, but is there an echo in here?)

As long as they don't block speedojunkie.blogspot.com, I'm pretty much fine with it.

oh my gosh, people, who cares? this is the AIRPORT. if people really need to be surfing for porn at the airport, they're in big trouble. this is NOT anyone's main access to the internet, it's a (generous) free service that the airport is providing to people so they can check their email while they're waiting for a plane--something not all airports are willing to do. So calm the fuck down and look at the swimsuit ads when you get home.

They're not just censoring porn sites. How much do you want to bet that you can't get on Slog at that airport? There are places where you can't get on Americablog, for crying out loud, because some adult content filter things "lesbian" and "gay" are pornographic terms.

Yes, it's a free service but that doesn't excuse the censorship. It's ridiculous and besides it won't stop an adult who is bent on looking at porn at the airport (they probably have it saved to thier hard drive anyhow). And if the problem is kids having unfettered internet access then the problem really lies with the parents - don't ask the laptop to entertain your kids and then leave them alone in an airport (because really what kid is going to surf for porn while sitting next to mom?)

You're one to talk, Dan, when you have a profanity blocker built right into Slog.

Look, there it is, bottom right corner of the page. Watch what happens when you click it!

Use a VPN service like HotSpotVPN. Using public wifi is notoriously insecure, this basically makes an encrypted tunnel that no one, INCLUDING THE DIA, can tell porn from cookie recipes. All they see is "Wireless Client number 2 is connected to HotspotVPN".

We should all be using it anyway since it blocks anyone from snooping in on your email/im/website, whether someone is trying to block content unfairly or not.

I have no problem with a blog that solicits other opinions. Far better than the majority of bloggers who just spew unsupported blather based on a cursory reading of somebody else's opinion of a brief story on a TV website rewritten from an AP rehash of a newspaper story.

Not that anyone here should take any offense...

"Blogs without opinions are like a restaurants without food or porn without tits—what’s the fucking point?"

DAN? You don't watch porn without tits? So confused ...