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Comments on news posted 2008-03-06 11:29:16: The Denver airport is being criticized because their free Wi-Fi network prohibits surfers from browsing such dangerous websites as Boing Boing and Vanity Fair. The blockade was first discovered by Talking Heads frontman David Byrne. ..
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 cdruGo ColtsPremium,MVM join:2003-05-14 Fort Wayne, IN kudos:5 | Newsstands I wonder if they also removed all of the Playboys, Penthouses, and similar magazines from the news stands at the airport. I mean, there is just another source of porn that some kiddie might accidentally see. | |
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The issue is most likely related to a network admin at DIA not fully understanding the categories and creating overly restrictive policy. If you look at the screencap of the block page, it clearly shows that www.boingboing.net is categorized as Incidental Nudity, not Nudity as the original post claims.
According to their category descriptions »www.securecomputing.com/index.cf···tegories there is a distinct difference between the two categories:
Incidental Nudity is designed to address cultural or geographic differences in opinion about nudity. Many customers may want to block access to nudity, but allow access when it is not the primary focus of a site such as for news sites or major portals. Nudity includes nonpornographic images of the bare human body like those that may be found in classic sculpture and paintings, or medical images.
Nudity includes URLs that have nonpornographic images of the bare human body. Classic sculpture and paintings, artistic nude photographs, some naturism pictures, and detailed medical illustrations are included in the Nudity category
Following the above guidelines, boingboing is correctly categorized as Incidental Nudity (as well as Blogs/Wiki), even though a very small percentage of content contains nudity (hence the incidental designation). | |
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