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Confidentiality. Or porn. One of those things.

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[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 45 points 1 day ago (3 children)

If it’s wireless someone will be sent porn by the creep 2 rows back.

There's no reason they couldn't expose an HDMI port, or even provide a cable that runs down the seat to the tray table.

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 49 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

yeah this whole article was an unnecessary rant which the author realized only after publishing.

Update: A reader writes in with an obvious comment that did not occur to me:

The obvious reason not to let people put things on the screens you own in public is that invariably people will put porn on them, and then you'll have other people complaining that the united screen system is showing porn. They don't say this because no corporate PR hack is going to talk about porn when it's not necessary. But it's definitely the real reason, and it's one they will not and should not budge on.

[–] mx_smith@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Reminds me of the time when I was living in Phoenix and picking up a friend from the bus station. The bus departures came in one big door and right next to the door was one of them new standing internet kiosks that allowed you to browse the internet. This was back in 2003. I was checking it out to see what you could do and where it allowed you to go, when my friends bus came in. I was on goatse.cx and saw my friend and left the kiosk open and we went to leave and noticed many older Hispanic folks freaking out, or laughing as they entered the bus station. The timer ran out on the internet access, but it was a lot of fun with open monitors in public.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 1 points 9 hours ago

Then you'll still have people screencast porn to their own screen, photograph it and post it on social media with a title like "United's in-flight entertainment".

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 1 day ago

Ah, the times when all phones and laptops in Tesco were unlocked for testing by customers and playing porn every day.

[–] Fermion@feddit.nl 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It would be pretty easy to require accepting a screenshare with a button press on the target screen. So I don't think trolling other people's displays is the main concern.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Seems you don’t understand how often people just click ‘OK’ without thinking.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

I don’t like how we have to limit everything to the lowest denominator at the punishment of everyone

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 3 points 18 hours ago

This is why we can’t have nice things.

[–] Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

To be fair, that IS the consequences of their own actions kinda