American and Delta Deny Porn

[miz_wright]

Originally Posted by TheEnforcer

We all know that are people out there who don't give a damn about social mores. Blame it on people who visited a porn site on their laptop mid-flight. {snip}
Also, do you let anybody do anything they want when they come to your home?? Does AEBN let you do anything you want while working? People set rules for their place of home or business every day.

1) This wouldn't have been possible via inflight wifi until very recently, and the article states it's never happened as far as anyone knows at any rate. So that's an invalid arguement to have, really. And again, I reiterate: it doesn't mean porn is inaccessible in toto, simply not via the web.

2) Also, not analogous arguements. I don't charge people to come into my house and then deny them access to their livlihood. And in return for certain job functions, AEBN provides me with compensation - it's an acceptable trade. In this case, I am paying for a business need - travel - and the standard for preventing someone from working, regardless of the business model under which that work is done, is not across the board. This, to my mind, constitutes a selective enforcement on job access - a banker will be able to work with his clients and access information on the financial markets, but I am unable to work with mine. This is an untenable encroachment on my ability to work that is not without bias on the part of the airlines in question.

[TheEnforcer]

Originally Posted by LizAEBN

1) This wouldn't have been possible via inflight wifi until very recently, and the article states it's never happened as far as anyone knows at any rate. So that's an invalid arguement to have, really. And again, I reiterate: it doesn't mean porn is inaccessible in toto, simply not via the web.

2) Also, not analogous arguements. I don't charge people to come into my house and then deny them access to their livlihood. And in return for certain job functions, AEBN provides me with compensation - it's an acceptable trade. In this case, I am paying for a business need - travel - and the standard for preventing someone from working, regardless of the business model under which that work is done, is not across the board. This, to my mind, constitutes a selective enforcement on job access - a banker will be able to work with his clients and access information on the financial markets, but I am unable to work with mine. This is an untenable encroachment on my ability to work that is not without bias on the part of the airlines in question.

1 -Doesn't matter that it hasn't only that it most certainly can. They say why let it happen at all? You can either use their flight service or not. You can just as easily take a train and have a private car if you wish or drive or take a boat if applicable. The point is it is THEIR privatye place of business, not yours, and thus they can set groundrules for using their services. You either accept them or use a different carrier or other mode of transportation. No one is forcing you to take a plane with that carrier.

2- The point is EVERYWHERE/EVERYONE has a set of rules of conduct on their premies and such. Freedom doen't mean anything goes and other people have rights as well.

[softball]

Originally Posted by TheEnforcer

1 -Doesn't matter that it hasn't only that it most certainly can. They say why let it happen at all? You can either use their flight service or not. You can just as easily take a train and have a private car if you wish or drive or take a boat if applicable. The point is it is THEIR privatye place of business, not yours, and thus they can set groundrules for using their services. You either accept them or use a different carrier or other mode of transportation. No one is forcing you to take a plane with that carrier.

2- The point is EVERYWHERE/EVERYONE has a set of rules of conduct on their premies and such. Freedom doen't mean anything goes and other people have rights as well.

Ground rules have limitations, even in the air. Or would that be air rules? Unless it is a danger to the safety of the plane, I am not sure if it would survive a challenge. But who would in all honesty challenge it? I hear they even let Buckwheat sit at the front of the plane nowadays. Go figure.

[Hell Puppy]

And round and round it goes...

This is the same issue I have with excessive government regulation, especially in places like schools. Redneck kid leaves his hunting knife in the truck during deer season, someone see's it he's expelled due to "zero tolerance".

Everyone has forgotten so much about responsibility that we now have entities trying to regulate common sense. And that never works out well. We restrict the masses because we've become too pussified to deal with the idiots. Society more and more protects the stupid, the weak and the listless.

If you left the internet totally open, why would you expect to see more occurences of porn on laptop screens than you see already on DVD players or open magazines? Yet there are perfectly legitimate business applications that just happen to be on same domains or servers, Liz mentioned one. I have another, the command center for every piece of app monitoring that I own, mainstream and adult, lives on an adult server, thus it's almost certainly blocked.

Deal with the occasional jackass who exercises poor judgement, leave the internet alone. Same guy who'd surf porn is highly likely to find other ways to draw attention to himself anyway.

[gonzo]

Originally Posted by Hell Puppy

Deal with the occasional jackass who exercises poor judgement, leave the internet alone. Same guy who'd surf porn is highly likely to find other ways to draw attention to himself anyway.

Like cooking a cum omlette?

[miz_wright]

Originally Posted by gonzo

Like cooking a cum omlette?