Melbourne Airport hates us

[willnotwill]

dd was blocked on the WIFI at the Melbourne Airport public wifi.   Fortunately now I'm sitting in the American Express Lounge and they don't.

 

[Elfy]

Probably caught in some kind of generic "adult website" filter

[DailyDi]

How rude!

[Cute_Kitten]

If it wasn't a filter, I wonder how the airline would even be aware of this site. I mean, out side of ABDL circles (or curious people who google ABDL), I think the vast majority of the vanilla world are unaware of its existence. Now it's making me wonder if an incident happened...and, if an incident did happen, what was it? Because curiosity. ?

[DailyDi]

2 hours ago, Cute_Kitten said:

If it wasn't a filter, I wonder how the airline would even be aware of this site. I mean, out side of ABDL circles (or curious people who google ABDL), I think the vast majority of the vanilla world are unaware of its existence. Now it's making me wonder if an incident happened...and, if an incident did happen, what was it? Because curiosity. ?

We have code embedded that signals we are an adult site. While not porn, we do restrict minors so this code is necessary to tell parental control software to flag us.

 

[maly]

Certain public WIFI conections do not allow adult rated content of any kind, it's not just DD or AB/DL being singled out.

Maly.

[~Brian~]

24 minutes ago, DailyDi said:

We have code embedded that signals we are an adult site. While not porn, we do restrict minors so this code is necessary to tell parental control software to flag us.

 

@DailyDi

I also think that this would have to do with the Laws in the State where DD has its servers.  @Elfy and others make it VERY clear what is against the rules, so I think that it is a good idea - We don't want to have any "issues" that would be a detriment to the site either.

Has this site had any trouble with the COPPA act?  being that we are classified as an "adult site" I don't think we would, but I'm Curious?

Brian

[rusty pins]

Yeah, you don't want to have Pee Wee Herman yanking his wacker while watching porn on his Wi-Fi laptop in the boarding area waiting for his flight!

[willnotwill]

There are databases out there that categorize websites.   My old job used one in our firewall.    Occassionally, I'd have to go intervene and convince them they'd mischaracturized a site.   I knew I was working for the wrong company when they blocked Dilbert.com.

It wasn't an airline in the original case, but the Melbourne airport public wifi.

Later on I found DD also was blocked in the Admirals Club wifi at LAX.

 

 

[willnotwill]

If you had one set up, I supposed, though I can guess that they block the common ones (tor and the like) as well.

[feralfreak]

the local hospital does the same thing, when my mom was in for her first heart attack(or it might have been the bleeding into the arm from too much lovenox) the hospitals wifi blocked this site, called it an adult website(but i can understand, because if i go into the photos area, it has pics for me to see from adult sites, 4ab.me, etc...., not very family oriented over on that part)