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

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: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 29 2018, @04:57PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 29 2018, @04:57PM (#767787)

    "A petition from Enough Is Enough said that public Wi-Fi networks "are attracting pedophiles and sex offenders" and put children at risk."

    if this were true you should be glad that public wifi is making it so easy to catch these dangerous pervs. of course the police would have to do at least a small portion of their jobs and go pick them up.

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  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday November 29 2018, @06:10PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday November 29 2018, @06:10PM (#767825) Journal

    Yeah, but we're talking about Starbucks here. Is he at the Starbucks here, the one across the street, or the one that's inside the one across the street?