FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - inflight Internet - No VoIP....but you can surf your porn!
Old Jan 27, 2008, 11:08 pm
  #6  
terrier
 
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 545
Originally Posted by mrchris
Well not that I would necessarily support either porn or internet phone calls in-flight.... my point was that they ARE content filtering, by filtering VoIP, but not filtering other kinds of content... and I am surprised that they stopped at voice traffic and nothing more, especially with the rash of in-flight gropers recently.
Filtering ports or protocols is different than filtering content. It's not as though AS is blocking only certain conversations over VoIP or limiting the numbers you can call, for example.

They could just as easily block, say, HTTP as block VoIP. That wouldn't really be content filtering, though it wouldn't do much for making the service popular either.
terrier is offline