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Porn in the sky

American Airlines Caves In to Religious Groups' Pressure, Filters In-Flight Porn

I was hoping that American Airlines would stand up against religious groups' stupid demands, keeping their in-flight online service completely un-filtered. After all, they had great arguments: filtering porn sites will jeopardize the access to legitimate web sites, hindering the usability of their airplane wireless network. Not to mention the fact that people wanting to look at naughty bits in airplanes can always watch the porn stored in their computers, cellphones, and personal multimedia players. The network filtering is not going to change that. Sadly, they now have changed their tune: More »

4:20 PM on Thu Oct 9 2008
By Jesus Diaz
5,136 views, 92 comments

Latest by johnnyabnormal: @Rabid Penguin: Ah, but what if it was hot male on male penguin porn? Or would BBC "Planet Earth" more »

censoring the friendly skies

Delta to Block Porn On In-Flight Wi-Fi So Flight Attendants Don't Have To

Where the open internet goes, porn follows; howerver, this golden rule is being re-evaluated for the friendly skies by Delta, who plans to filter web sites used on their implementation of Aircell's Gogo in-flight Wi-Fi service. While most of the early adopters of in-flight Wi-Fi have said they will only filter certain types of traffic and not web content itself, relying on flight attendants to handle case-by-case complaints of passengers attempting to join the solo mile high club right from their seat. Which they obviously weren't too happy about. More »

2:45 PM on Fri Oct 3 2008
By John Mahoney
8,242 views, 77 comments

Latest by YeomanErmmph: either they just leave as is and calm flight attendants down or start checking the laptops for any porn content more »

In-Flight Porn

Flight Attendants Are Latest Group to Poo Poo Wireless Network Porn on Planes

Flight attendants are the latest group looking to put the kibosh on in-flight porn, which they say is polluting the airways thanks to the new American Airlines in-flight wireless network. Taking a page from Focus on the Family, the 19,000-strong union is looking to filter the content web surfers can access in the air. But is the air really getting polluted with porn? As is the case most of the time, Association of Professional Flight Attendants reps couldn't produce specific examples of "alternative" in-flight entertainment, but did say "a lot of complaints" were raised by attendants and passengers alike. More »

12:00 PM on Sat Sep 13 2008
By Jack Loftus
10,574 views, 55 comments

Latest by ldsdj: D'oh! I mean "...you *can't* LOOK at them on the plane..." more »

in-flight wi-fi

American Airlines In-Flight Wi-Fi Launches Today on Three Routes

If you're flying on an AA 767-200 from NYC to San Francisco, Miami or Los Angeles, you can kick the tires of American's new Gogo/Aircell in-flight Wi-Fi service for $12.95 (the rate for flights over 3 hours). It's the same provider Delta will be using as they roll out the service fleetwide starting soon. Let us know how it is from the air, Giz jet-setters. More »

10:45 AM on Wed Aug 20 2008
By John Mahoney
3,554 views, 25 comments

Latest by sheyingshi: Yeah, that sound like a real deal. Blazingly slow connection for an exorbitant amount of money, then the twit in more »

reviews

Walt Mossberg Reviews GoGo In-Flight Wi-Fi (Verdict: Fast, But Not Fast Enough)

Walt just tested GoGo, the in-flight Wi-Fi service, on a bunch of laptops and smartphones during a flight from San Francisco to Denver. The service distributes, via Wi-Fi, a high speed cellphone data signal pointed at airplanes, which Mossy rated at around 600kbps down and 250kbps up. This was quick enough for Walt to browse the web, send emails with iPhone rumor attachments, and talk on IM to his ladies, but it couldn't keep up with streaming video on Xtube Hulu. Also, VoIP is blocked, and cell calls aren't possible either. Still, Mossy thought it did well enough for someone who can't stay off the grid for a few hours. GoGo costs $10 for flights under three hours, and $13 for longer ones. It'll begin rolling out in the next few weeks on American Airlines, with Virgin soon to follow. [AllThingsD]

11:18 AM on Thu Jun 19 2008
By Benny Goldman
1,279 views, 15 comments

Latest by aec007: First company that comes out with an ADD paid service (so it's free to the customer) that does not block more »

in-flight

Gogo To Bring In-Flight Wi-Fi By Spring; We Can't Wait

We already knew that Virgin America and American Airlines were planning to bring in-flight wi-fi in 2008, but we seriously didn't expect it be ready by spring. Aircell has just launched its US in-flight wi-fi service called "gogo" and they claim it will be available in the first half of 2008. Virgin America and American Airlines have both signed on to use gogo but it looks like Virgin America is the only airline taking the service seriously. More »

4:05 PM on Thu Mar 13 2008
By Christopher Mascari
2,435 views, 15 comments

Latest by SneakerFiend: How many people are actually going to be willing to pay the 10 dollars??? If the 2MBs is for share then more »

ban-tastic

Skype, Porn May Not Fly In Friendly Skies

The good news is, all you guys who have been dreading the use of internet calling on airplanes may be in luck, because airlines and airborne service providers alike are considering a ban on Skype. The bad news is, they're also considering a ban on that age-old lonely traveler's companion, porn, says the AP. Here's a list of soon-to-be-Wi-Fi'd airlines and what services they plan to ban: More »

12:45 PM on Mon Dec 24 2007
By Wilson Rothman
7,977 views, 16 comments

Latest by Maciek: I believe it's the rules of the operating carrier's country of origin apply. The reason I'm saying this is more »

wireless

American Airlines to Test In-Flight Wi-Fi in 2008

Some time in 2008, you may be lucky enough to get on a 767-200 transcontinental American Airlines flight that's testing the AirCell in-flight broadband service. The wireless net access will be available to all classes—yes, even us poor people—for a price. There will be three antennas outside the plane to transmit your 802.11a/b/g "Lolz im on a plane" messages to your buddies. No word on when this will move to widespread deployment. [AA - Thanks Mike]

3:30 PM on Wed Aug 1 2007
By Jason Chen
3,542 views, 15 comments

Latest by Lucky_Luke: Ain't no big deal really. This feature has been done on other international flight a few years ago, but more »

fly the gadgety skies

Watch n' Fly: American Airlines Brings PMP to Flights

American Airlines had to compete with likes of Jetblue and their in-flight DirecTV service. But that's pretty hard to do when you're already bleeding cash all over the run way. More »

7:36 PM on Thu May 3 2007
By blongo3
1,011 views, 7 comments