Porn on Flights(2 updates-scroll down to red update)

Please spread the word, let's bombard American Corporate Communications Dept, with e-mails! Please feel free to distribute throughout your organizations also. Thank you!

The Public Also Wants Porn Filtered on Flights

Contact: Girls Against Porn, girlsagainstporn@gmail.com

Girls Against Porn is sending a letter, co-signed by organizations, to American Airlines, stating it is in the airline's best interest to filter porn as part of its in-flight Internet.

The leaders of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants voiced concern over being designated "moral police" of the in-flight service. They want it filtered.

Blogs and complaints from the public concur. Porn is indecent; hardcore pornography can be prosecuted under federal obscenity laws.

The coalition letter expresses concern for children and passengers who are exposed to pornography. Seating is already confined. It isn't fair if someone has to sit next to someone viewing porn. In fact, many passengers will not tolerate this! Flight attendants and customers have already complained. This leads to the risk of security issues aboard a flight given that confrontations will arise.

The letter details, "the airlines are taking a risk, opening themselves up to lawsuits from customers who are exposed to porn or the effects." American Airlines has already been sued for $200,000, by a passenger who alleges while sleeping woke up to find a substance in her hair, from another passenger masturbating. Porn and masturbation go hand in hand and the airlines run the risk of having this happen repeatedly if Internet isn't filtered.

In January 2007, the family of an 11 year old girl sued Delta Airlines alleging she was molested by a male passenger.

The letter states, "If passengers who view porn, decide to act upon that, if there is a child flying in that row, airlines have opened the door for traumatic experiences and lawsuits."

Airlines should be taking precautions to protect passengers from similar incidents. Concerned citizens will be supporting airlines that have taken the passenger safe stance by applying filters, such as Jet Blue, Continental, and Qantas.

This is a call to the public, and parents, who should e-mail American Airlines Communications: corp.comm@aa.com, or call AA headquarters at, 817-963-1234, and press 0.

Tell them to correct this mistake and insist they apply filters to Internet services immediately.

Girls Against Porn (www.girlsagainstporn.com) is an on-line resource and action coalition for women who have a loved one involved in porn, and for anyone who wishes to get involved in the fight against porn and enforcement of obscenity laws.

UPDATE:
Public pressure from people like YOU made this victory possible! Pat Trueman

Delta to filter Wi-Fi sites
By Kelly Yamanouchi

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Friday, October 03, 2008

Delta Air Lines plans to block inappropriate Web sites from its in-flight Wi-Fi service to be launched this year.

Delta previously said it planned to rely on flight attendants to handle inappropriate situations, such as pornography surfing. But after feedback from customers and attendants, the airline changed its policy and is working with Wi-Fi provider Aircell to use a system to block inappropriate content.

“Blocking will be limited in scope and will be for sites that few, if any, would question are inappropriate to be viewed on an aircraft,” Delta spokesman Kent Landers said Thursday. “Our focus is to achieve a balanced approach.”

While other systems have been criticized for blocking relatively non-racy sites such as Vanity Fair magazine, Landers said Delta’s system would work differently.

Delta’s move comes after American’s attendants expressed concerns about passengers’ ability to “potentially go to inappropriate sites,” said David Roscow of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants. American said it is examining options.

UPDATE UPDATE:
Airlines are making decisions right now on whether to filter in-flight Internet service to prevent access to pornography. The story below discusses Delta’s changed position, which is the result of public pressure from people like you. The American Family Association has made it easy for you to weigh in with American Airlines. Please take time to click this link and let your voice be heard: http://www.onemilliondads.com/TakeAction.asp?id=311

Airline gets message, decides to filter Internet access
Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow - 10/7/2008 10:00:00 AM


One airline has caved in to public pressure regarding in-flight access to pornography.

Several airlines are considering providing Internet access on some flights, but without filters to prevent access to inappropriate material. Delta Airlines has announced it is changing course and will have its Internet service filtered. Pat Trueman, special counsel to Alliance Defense Fund, is pleased because that will leave flight attendants to focus on their work rather than monitoring Internet use.

"We want flight attendants concerned about our safety and our comfort, not about regulating pornography on the Internet," Trueman says.

Delta simply reacted to public input, and Trueman believes others, specifically American Airlines, will do the same. "Make your calls to these companies because, as we've demonstrated with the Delta situation, phone calls to the company work," he contends.

JetBlue, Continental, and Qantas Airways provide Internet service, but it is filtered.