In a bid to avoid offending some by blocking “racy sites” Denver airport has been filtering website access from their free wi-fi hotspots. But, in their bid to address our collective squeamishness they are also blocking the likes of boingboing dot net and …Vanity Fair?
Um, OK.
From the Denver Post:
Airport spokesman Chuck Cannon says officials decided to block potentially racy sites when the airport made its wireless internet service free in November. Previously, there was a fee for using it.
Cannon says the airport would rather weather infrequent complaints about access than handle angry parents whose children might see pornography.
I’ll be willing to wager that if you wander around the airport you’ll be able to pick up an open AP from one of the first class lounges. At LAX one of the airlines is good enough to provide free wireless to their passengers…and anyone else in range of gate 26 in terminal two.
If anyone if traveling through Denver I’d love to know if access to Liquidmatrix is blocked as well.
[tags]Denver Airport Wi-Fi, Internet Censorship[/tags]
Just an update- I’m in the Denver airport right now and while there’s an ugly ad bar across the top of every page, this site isn’t blocked. (I’m searching to try to get rid of the ad bar)
@Evan
Thanks for the update! I do appreciate it. Sorry I can’t help you with the ad bar. Do you have Firefox? You could load up Noscript if you’re not already. See if that works perhaps.
Good luck with it.
cheers,
Dave
They are also blocking ports 3389 and 3390 if your trying to use remote desktop connections