DENVER, CO — If you’re an adult webmaster with some between flight time to burn in the Denver International Airport, don’t even think about using the terminal’s free Wi-Fi service to check out your stats. If you’re a member of an adult website and want to read your favorite performer’s blog while waiting for your Denver connection, don’t waste your time. Heck, if you just want to check out Vanity Fair online or maybe browse boingboing.net, you’d be better served to just buy a magazine or gossip with the guy next to you. Why? Because airport officials want to protect children from the chance of seeing anything too racy on the monitors of other people’s laptop computers.
According to The Denver Post, critics of the policy claim that the airport is using the same technology employed by such well-respected political regimes as those in the Sudan and Kuwait in order to ensure that nothing saucy slips through connected internet filters.
The airport’s Wi-Fi service has been free since November, at which time the powers that be decided the service wouldn’t include access to anything provocative. Representative Chuck Cannon informed the Associated Press that reasoning that the airport considered a few complaints from frustrated sexual sophisticates better than dealing with the outrage of distressed parents.
