Wednesday, October 15, 2008

American Airlines Says No to Inflight Pron

The captain has turned on the "no-porn" sign, at least when it comes to using Wi-Fi on American Airlines.

The Dallas Morning News reports that American now plans to filter out pornographic content on its inflight Wi-Fi service, which it began offering on some cross-country flights Aug. 20. If the trial run works out, the service will be expanded to other flights.

American originally intended to have its flight attendants make sure that passengers did not go to pornographic sites, but, according to Gothamist, the flight attendants did not want to have to take on that responsibility.

Contactmusic.com reports that 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."

The Morning News also reported that Delta Air Lines plans to filter out porn as well when it debuts its inflight Wi-Fi.

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