The Association of Flight Attendants has met up with board members of American Airlines and Delta Airlines to persuade them to install filtering systems on their in-flight wireless internet systems that would block passengers from accessing pornographic movie websites.
Previously, American Airlines said that the job of regulating laptop users would be carried out by the flight attendants, which has caused uproar within the community.
Corey Caldwell of the Association of Flight Attendants told Wired.com, “We’re glad the airlines have responded to our concerns and to those of passengers.”
It has been reported that passengers have always been able to load and watch pornographic films onto their laptops, but there are no reported incidents of anyone actually doing so. This piece of evidence is significant to such groups as the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Marc Rotenberg, who heads the EFF Privacy Information Center, said that this move could lead to the censoring of other content that passengers may find inappropriate.
He continued, saying, “It’s so easy, once that precedent is set to broaden…the kind of information blocks that might be imposed.”
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