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Starbucks says it'll block porn on its public Wi-Fi next year
For years, Starbucks has caught flak for not preventing its customers from watching porn on its in-store Wi-Fi. Now the coffee retailer says that next year it will introduce a filter that prevents customers from viewing porn and other explicit material in stores, as first reported by Business Insider.
[...] This week, Enough Is Enough CEO Donna Rice Hughes said Starbucks had failed to protect its customers and follow through with its plan to block explicit content. "By breaking its commitment, Starbucks is keeping the doors wide open for convicted sex offenders and others to fly under the radar from law enforcement and use free, public Wi-Fi services to access illegal child porn and hard-core pornography," she said.
A petition from Enough Is Enough said that public Wi-Fi networks "are attracting pedophiles and sex offenders" and put children at risk.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 29 2018, @12:23PM (8 children)
I love how they so casually lump "illegal child porn" and "hard-core pornography" in one sentence. One is illegal, one has decades of court decisions saying it's not only legal but also is protected speech. This illustrates the actual agenda of these mouth-breathing hype beasts: banning a broad set of legal materials under the guise of protecting children. The notion that "pedophiles and sex offenders" are running around "targeting" Starbucks coffee shops to drink lattes and watch baby rape videos is frankly the most hilarious thing I've heard from any of these pearl-clutching freedom-hating groups throughout all of 2018. They have no idea how any of this technology stuff works; in the tech world, they're nothing more than drooling cave-women with a highly regressive authoritarian agenda.
(Score: 5, Informative) by takyon on Thursday November 29 2018, @12:42PM (2 children)
If you care to go down the rabbit hole, you can visit the org's website:
https://enough.org/ [enough.org]
https://enough.org/news/211KPOWTDX5 [enough.org]
Yup, it's a trash group on the level of the Parents Television Council, if not worse.
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by realDonaldTrump on Friday November 30 2018, @02:12AM (1 child)
We're very proud of FOSTA. Otherwise known as SESTA. Our guys in Congress worked very hard on that one. I did a big beautiful signature on that one -- one of my best. I'm very proud because it's a PROMISE KEPT. One of many.
We love the children, don't we love children? They're very special. There's nothing in the world like children. You know it. I know it. And Enough is Enough knows it. They know. And they know you know. They know I know. And they know that I'm the only guy that can make our internet great again. We're losing so many children to internet. So many beautiful young lives. And I signed, very beautifully, the Children's Internet Safety Presidential Pledge. Lyin' Ted didn't sign. Crooked H didn't sign. But, I signed very proudly. I promised to make our internet very Child Safe. I did the Pledge. And they put my signature on the internet. On the website. Where, by the way, it looks amazing. I don't want to brag, but it looks great on there. Working hard, folks!!!! enough.org/objects/EIE-prespledge-signedtrump.pdf [enough.org]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by realDonaldTrump on Friday November 30 2018, @02:21AM
(cont) By the way, we love Donna Rice Hughes. Otherwise known as Donna Rice. But, not in a sexual way. She's a smart, and very sexy lady. As everybody knows. But we didn't have "sex" with her. We didn't kiss her. She didn't go "sailing" on our yacht. And, she didn't come to any of our parties. Or after parties. Fortunately. Thank you, Donna!!!!
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday November 29 2018, @06:14PM (3 children)
Well we all think it's stupid but do we all drink that much Starbucks coffee? I'd wager that we're mostly better at math than that.
So who does drink lot's of Starbucks: Pearl-clutching parents
A bunch of customers asks Starbucks to install a filter and they comply. Since they're not an ISP or part of the government I fail to see the outrage here.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday November 29 2018, @09:48PM (2 children)
Who are those we, 'cause I know I don't drink any Starbucks coffee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday November 29 2018, @10:27PM (1 child)
That was my point. Starbucks doesn't care about the opinions of people who don't buy Starbucks.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday November 29 2018, @10:56PM
Ahh, I see now
(I needed that espresso. One at the kiosk in the train station, while waiting for my ride. Is good to live in Melbourne [cnn.com], you'll be... ummm... hard pressed [sbs.com.au] to find a mediocre coffee).
You mean that noisy puritan org is buying from Starbucks? No wonder they are so nasty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday November 30 2018, @02:06AM
Well still, one of the things that separates us from the lesser animals is a level of self-control such that we don't watch porn in public whether or not it is our own data connection.
You think Starbucks is bad? Try visiting a California public college library. You got motherfuckers shifting around while panting and openly kneading their dicks through their clothing, and you can see their toes curling because they are wearing socks with sandals; and you have an awful lot of those.
I don't know about other states, but in California's public colleges, it is tolerated and nobody does anything about it. I guess that is "progressive" behavior or something.