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Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday November 29 2018, @10:15AM   Printer-friendly
from the three-letters-V-P-N dept.

takyon writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 5, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday November 29 2018, @04:04PM (6 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday November 29 2018, @04:04PM (#767760) Homepage Journal

    Wouldn't it be easier to just ban children?

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by pkrasimirov on Thursday November 29 2018, @04:37PM (1 child)

    by pkrasimirov (3358) Subscriber Badge on Thursday November 29 2018, @04:37PM (#767777)

    Best ban sex offenders and problem solved.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by bob_super on Thursday November 29 2018, @05:35PM

      by bob_super (1357) on Thursday November 29 2018, @05:35PM (#767803)

      If they're stupid enough to watch child porn in a public place, the problem should solve itself reasonably quickly...

  • (Score: 2) by edIII on Thursday November 29 2018, @08:51PM (2 children)

    by edIII (791) on Thursday November 29 2018, @08:51PM (#767930)

    You channeled my grandfather perfectly :)

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by DannyB on Thursday November 29 2018, @09:46PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday November 29 2018, @09:46PM (#767945) Journal

    Believe me. Starbucks is not nearly as bad as visiting Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World. I much prefer Epcot instead. Magic Kingdom has children roaming the streets in packs -- without leashes or muzzles!

    Even the Starbucks in the Magic Kingdom (on Main Street USA) has children in line with their parents.

    Of course, twenty some odd years ago when I took my daughter to Magic Kingdom, I thought of children differently. But that is because things were . . . um, just different.

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