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Kevin

I am to busy trying yo get into the pretty stewardess' pants to worry about any porn!!

Kevin

When I'm on an airplane, I make sure to watch my porn in the tiny uncomfortable bathroom.

Technician

First of all, I think if this was a big problem, it would have been raised a long time ago since dirty magazines, porn DVDs, AVIs, DiVX and the good 'ol JPG have been around for a long time. So what's the difference if someone watches the dvd of "Anal sluts 9" or streams it over the in-flight WiFi?

That said, who the hell looks at porn on a plane anyway?? Can't they wait? Or just get an iPhone and get their tuggin' on in the bathroom like a decent person?

Have some tact FFS

digidt

Good luck filtering it all out. Proxies FTW!

mruler360

Looking at porn in a public setting shows a complete lack of class.

-so given the times we live in I'm not surprised one little bit.

Good thing they don't offer the hot towels anymore...

strider_mt2k

You gotta laugh at that picture. Or you probably never laugh at anything.

mruler360

so why can you buy playboy and penthouse in every airport across the country. Is nakedness different when its on a computer screen?

Rex Luna

@Kevin: You must not fly domestic. I think they scrape underneath the barrel for the crews that service the US.

I'm fine with them banning streaming porn on airplanes. I think I'd get along just fine using my fleshlight with some Penthouse Forum, or a OUI pictorial.

qbrad

They sell the nastiest porn mags in airport gift shops. People would buy those and take them on the plane. That was never an issue. I don't see why this would become one.

Also, now it just means that more people will join the mile-high club, albiet by themselves.

badhatharry

I wonder what kind of person would watch porn on a plane. How sick can you be? Have the decency to do it in the privacy of your own bedroom.

But seriously, if you do not feel absolutely disgusted with yourself when you do something like this there's something seriously wrong with you. This is not something you do in public.

Nathan Drake

I hadn't thought of watching porn on planes until I heard about this. Totally into it now.

zingbot

Most of us prefer our porn in private. I would guess that just as many people grope the stews as watch porn on the plane.

twoHats

Call me crazy, BUT...is this something anyone needs to be concerned with, anyway?I can easily load my iPhone or iPod up with plenty of porn, "plug in" (my earphones, that is), and watch to my heart's content. Content filtering and morality choices about viewing are better left for religiocracies (see today's BBC article, "Saudi Judge Condemns 'immoral tv,'" [is.gd]), and Communist dictatorships. And the Bush Administration. Oh wait, that is us....

seismic007

Porn on planes is a huge problem! There isn't enough of it ...

clockradio

They sell porn magazines in the airport gift shop, whats the difference between the weird old guy I saw break that out on a flight and someone watching a video/digital pictures?

DashTheHand

Porn on planes? What's the longest possible flight? Around 20ish hours? Who can't go that long without porn? If you have to, rub it out before getting on the plane, and again when disembark.

Now about this Wifi: Do they also offer standard outlets? My battery only lasts about an hour in powersave when the wireless card is on.

smartboydan hates college

In Seattle, the easiest place to buy the standard porn magazines is in the airport. (Unless you are going to a store that only sells sexual related merchandise)

William C Bonner

I'm honestly a little surprised that they want to be in the business of judging content at all - that's a tricky business. You've got to determine where the line is between "porn" and other content that might be close to the line, but someone has completely valid reasons for watching it. Do you stop a passanger from watching a rated "R" movie with a particularly steamy sex scene in it? What if that content is being watched by a film student as homework?

abztrakt

Slow news day, eh?

scott johnson

is this really about porn ? r is it secretly a way to get people to stop whacking off during the safety briefing.

ultim8fury

the real issue here is that someone will download a virus on some shady porn site which will spread to the fly-by-wire system and bring the plane down. when investigators recover the black box, it'll be filled w/ porn

Weihovah

But then there's a point where the service is restricted to be point no one wants to use it.

Ypoknons

"So what's the difference if someone watches the dvd of "Anal sluts 9" or streams it over the in-flight WiFi?"

@digidt: For my money, its the lack of the brilliant director commentary. No sir. I'll stick with my personal dvd player, thank you!

WildWon

What is this "porn" of which you speak.....

Curves

@Kevin:
Pretty stewardess? Maybe 20 years ago. The last "pretty" stewardess I've seen on a plane was a dude in a wig.

Hardcore1

Methinks she doth protest too much. It just gets everyone else hot and bothered, or they wouldn't care. No one's complaining about graphic violence on planes because they can just turn their head away from it. But they can't seem to turn their heads away from porn...

jakemiles

Just issue all laptop users one of these
[gizmodo.com]

klew

I'm sick of this !@#$%^& porn on this &%^#%@# plane!

CSX321

@scott johnson: Slow commenting day, huh?

Good luck with that.

strider_mt2k

@Duc: I'm just saying that somebody has to determine where the line between those two is, and from their standpoint, it seems strange they'd want to be the ones trying to set the line. It'd be one thing if there was a loud public outcry from other passengers being affected by this - then it's a business issue, but that doesn't seem to be where this is originating from at all. I know if I was a flight attendant, I wouldn't want to have to make that call unless a passenger complained.

abztrakt

@abztrakt: lol. Uh cause in a steamy R rated move we dont see a load being blown on some girls face. Nice try tho

Duc

Oh no!!!
What a shame!
What am I gonna do now?
*Superman theme song plays*
KPROXY TO THE RESCUE!!!

Pwnage

There's no difference between streaming porn and and a DVD. there is a difference between a relatively clandestine, sound free magazine or book, and a backlit 17 inch screen with stereo sound. Even with headphones, you've still got a screen that's bigger than what we used to have in our living rooms. Hardly clandestine.

GadgetPlay

@strider_mt2k: Uhhh, they still do; though just on international flight where you're sitting next to people for >6 hours or so.

behavin

agreed on adult literature at the airport!

if they are going to ban smut through wifi (are though going to ban German smut too? cross border filtering is always poor), they should ban the 18+ magazines that are for sale every 50 feet in the airports!

the only difficulty with internet porn, is that if a customer is accused, it is much more difficult to provide proof that material was viewed, vs. a magazine where it is hard to dispose of the evidence.

freelunch

Are they going to stop selling the "adult" magazines at airports?
There is no point to doing this unless they have a policy as to what is not appropriate to viewed on a plane. As others noted it is completely possible to load porn on to just about every phone, smart-phone, PMP, laptop and portable DVD player.

Also is this really a problem? Has this happened often? Is this causing a line at the bathroom?

DeadWriter

I don't even know how someone can get away with it these days. All some angry passenger has to do is say that you were playing the porn around their kid and the offending passenger goes to jail for life and the parent sues the airline out of existence.

markarian

Ive had it with these motherf***ing pornos on my motherf***ing plane!!

i had to hehe.

smeee

I see your "snakes on a plane" and raise you, "Porn on a Plane".

Should-be-working

My moms a flight attendant for AA and she hasn't had any problems with people looking at porn, although a bunch of her friends have had to tell people to put away their playboys.

gamecrazychris

Just watch out there are no kids around you. And make sure nobody has to directly see your little videos. Somebody should make a laptop screen you can only look at from the front.

Another idea: What about video goggles?

NilzXX

This is just Focus on (your own damn) Family using this new technology to call attention to themselves. People have brought porn on planes before, they will in the future. Any reasonable person doesn't view material in front of others, but it has nothing to do with wireless networks - its just a means of accessing it.

FOTF is nothing more than a group of ninnies who masquerades as a religious group on order to promote political causes.

and as of late they've been getting pretty desperate:

[www.futuregringo.com]

jamesdenver

its just not rite. i think that looking at porn in public places is pretty indecent, some states might even have indecent exposure and sexual harassment laws against this.

they gotta make cardboard dividers to put on the meal tray so only the owner of the laptop can see it.

[www.photodon.com]

urbanturban666

@urbanturban666: You could probably use those 3M privacy screen filters.

I'm not even concerned about this one bit. I have this strange faith in the moral decency of our culture. If some dude wants to look at his porn on a plane and someone else sees it, it doesn't take long for a gaggle of angry parents to put an end to it. No web-filtering, spy-cams, or moral-policing-stewardesses are needed for that. That said, if there is a problem, it's only good business for the airline to decide for itself what method of moral-social-policing they want to do.

whiteknight

Woohoo! Mile high club, here I come. Before the filter comes out, this gives me some new ideas for flights with my g/f

surf.seppo

I am sure there is a 'code of conduct' somewhere in that ticket you get. If you can be denied boarding cause you are dressed like a hoe, why would you be able to look at your fave furry yaoi cosplayer page on the plane?

IMO this is just a novelity for people getting internet at FL250... 'schweet, I can get itchybum-smellyfinger.com up here!'. Is it okay if someone has porn on thier HDD and watches it, as long as it isnt wireless? No, so throw something in the code of conduct, they get asked, warned, then banned from the airline.

Oroka

Anything goes in coach right?

RoboChop

@gamecrazychris: "My moms a flight attendant for AA..."

I didn't know Alcoholics Anonymous had an airline. Good luck getting a drink on that flight. At least the passengers can get their meeting out of the way, saving time after touchdown.

GadgetPlay

@NilzXX: Indeed. It should be up to the watcher top prevent small children from seeing, just like if you;re watching a loud movie and they make you wear headphones.

BTW, they do make laptop privacy films.

kanon

what about privacy?? are flight attendants allowed to look at your screen to make sure you are not looking at some nice porn during a boring flight??

gear21

focus on the family: telling you what you can and can't enjoy according to our religion for 30 years now. Think about the children!

Saboth

@abztrakt: Hey I'm not saying I'm against Capital Punishment, but that doesn't mean we need to do in on the corner of Central Ave. and Main St.

Duc

D'oh! I mean "...you *can't* LOOK at them on the plane..."

ldsdj

First of all, you can BUY the dirty magazines at the airports, but you can LOOK at them on the plane. So it IS the same thing. They don't want you waving pornographic material around in the presence of other people, particularly the stewardesses, who would have to come by and see it in the course of their job.

Secondly, despite the Liberal distortion of the term "separation of church and state," this country was founded on Judeo-Christian principles and morals, and the more indecency we allow, the more prevalent said indecency becomes. If we want to have a strong society, we need to display a mature sense of respect for its citizens.

ldsdj