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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 29 2018, @03:54PM (3 children)
Great, but what are you going to do if someone downloads illegal things over your connection, and you are arrested or sued, your name and pictures pasted all over your local news?
(Score: 4, Funny) by DannyB on Thursday November 29 2018, @07:04PM
That will not happen because he is an Anonymous Coward.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Thursday November 29 2018, @08:49PM (1 child)
You tell the truth that it was a guest that used it. Since everybody reading the local news most likely does the same thing in their house, I expect most people will believe it's bullshit.
There is big difference between "illegal downloads at that location", and "police found 50,000 CP pictures on multiple hard drives, flash drives, and thumb drives hidden throughout the house". So it would matter how it was reported, and the local news has to be careful, otherwise they could get sued. Not only that, but local news and print offers retractions when necessary.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 29 2018, @11:44PM
Ummm...yeah. About those retractions. While I don't really do much hunting around for retractions my impression is that the accusations are made with SCREAMING headlines typeset with 2" tall letters on the front page. The retractions, on the other hand, typically come several days/weeks/months letter in 10pt font tucked away on page twelve (buried under the fold, naturally). And said retractions usually only come after the news organization's legal team tell them they have to do it or face the possibility of a HUGE lawsuit. That is typically how much news organizations care about setting the record straight after they screw up; the victims of false accusations pay, by far, most of the burden for their mistakes.