Originally Posted by
kuroneko
Fair enough. If you don't think an airline is doing this, take it up directly with them. Just don't seek to legislate your specific brand of morality on me by passing a law to achieve this goal.
If you were paying attention, you would have noticed that I called the proposed legislation as idiotic as the "they should be allowed to show anything" crowd.
Folks, this is common sense. You don't show an airplane terror/crash movie on the overhead screens on an airplane. You don't show a controversial film (think Michael Moore) on an airplane. And you don't show an R-rated movie about family rape (as Delta is doing this month) on the screens.
The only reason government ever gets involved in these issues is when the industry fails to use common sense. Think, for example, of all the talk about legislating wait times on airplanes. Ridiculous. But these ideas get a hearing because the airlines fail to police themselves.