Yes, it needs to be said because flight attendants are worried that some people don’t know not to watch porn while flying next to strangers. American Airlines flight attendants even want porn sites blocked on flights offering WiFi access.
The “vast majority” of travelers use good judgment in what they look at, said Tim Smith, a spokesman for Fort Worth, Texas-based American. ‘Customers viewing inappropriate material on board a flight is not a new scenario for our crews, who have always managed this issue with great success.’
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American’s attendants don’t want to become “moral policemen,” said Frank Bastien, a spokesman at the union’s headquarters. Attendants also don’t want to be exposed to laptop images of violence or pornography, he said.
“It’s a real concern to our members,” Bastien said. American “put on filters that will prevent people from making Wi-Fi phone calls, and they don’t seem to have any qualms about doing that. Where’s the protection for other things out there?”
Ars Technica correctly points out that passengers have always been able to smuggle aboard promotional materials for the Mile High Club, mostly without incident.
What’s worse: sitting next to a guy watching porn, or sitting next to a guy yabbering away on Skype?
American Air Attendants Urge Filters to Bar Web Porn [Bloomberg via Ars Technica]
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What if the plane is flying from, or over a state which bans p0rn from in vehicle DVD players?
Here in TN it is outlawed to play it in vehicle DVD players since some lawmaker freaked when he saw a blinged out SUV with a monster DVD screen putting out “xxx” fare at a stop light.
Or maybe the airlines will have “all-p0rn” flights to the Las Vegas Adult Entertainment Industry convention…
1) I’ve yet to see any evidence of how anyone was actually harmed by pornography…and those BS studies done by bible thumpers who literally believe that a female orgasm is a sign of being posesed don’t count
2) Take a redeye flight onboard us or jetBlue, watch the Daily Show…girls gone wild commercials galore.
If I were to sit next to someone on a plane watching porn, I would bust out my camera phone and take his (or I guess, her, maybe) photo. If he asked what I was doing, I would say: “I’m taking a photo of you so I can email it to a couple of blogs later. What are you doing?” If he has some sort of right to watch porn in a place like a plane, then I have the right to take his photo (which I would later use to attempt to publicly humiliate him).