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DIA Still Keeping Some Sites in the Dark

Apparently the reporters over at the Denver Post don't read Jaunted. If they did, they'd have heard months ago that Denver International censors the web. But we suppose if you haven't heard, it's breaking news to you.

Here's the scoop. DIA implemented Webwasher, a filtering product, after it made its wireless network free. Ostensibly it's to keep bored people from looking up porn, but the filters are also blocking gossip sites like Perez Hilton and Jossip as well as geek fave Boing Boing. We'll concede that Perez may not be embodiment of gentlemanly discourse, but he's hardly worth censoring.

Amazingly, some of the Denver Post's more puritanical readers think it's a good idea for the airport to implement this heavy-handed filtering. Us? We'd rather be left alone--and free to surf the whole Internet as we see fit.

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· DIA Keeps WiFi on the Mild Side [Denver Post]
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· Is United Blocking Jaunted? [Jaunted]