Say it ain't so: Censorship in America

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8V7E2E04&show_article=1

 

DENVER (AP) - Travelers using Denver International Airport's free Wi-Fi
service cannot visit
<http://search.breitbart.com/q?s=%22Internet+sites%22&sid=breitbart.com>
Internet sites that airport officials consider provocative. 

A report in The
<http://search.breitbart.com/q?s=%22Denver+Post%22&sid=breitbart.com> Denver
Post says the airport is blocking Vanity Fair magazine's Web site, the
hipster site boingboing.net and others. 

Airport spokesman Chuck Cannon says officials decided to block access to
potentially racy sites when the airport made its wireless internet service
free in November. 

Cannon says the airport would rather deal with infrequent complaints about
access than handle angry parents whose children might see pornography. 

Critics say the airport is using the same technology used by repressive
regimes in Sudan and Kuwait. 

 

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