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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) by DannyB on Thursday November 29 2018, @07:03PM (6 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday November 29 2018, @07:03PM (#767848) Journal

    So someone starts looking at porn at Starbucks. What do we do?

    1. Call the cops if he (or she?) whips it out and starts pleasuring themselves.
    2. Call the cops if the individual is seen by other patrons or staff to be violating the law (by accessing child pornography, or some other offense such as showing off porn to children who are at the Starbucks).
    3. Don't do anything

    1. Correct -- call the cops
    2. Correct -- call the cops
    3. Bzzzzzt. At least tell the staff. Even if they don't do anything.

    Having unfiltered WiFi isn't the crime. Misusing unfiltered WiFi in public is the crime.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday November 29 2018, @08:01PM (2 children)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Thursday November 29 2018, @08:01PM (#767890) Journal

    In my #3 scenario, nobody sees/notices the activity. If you sit quietly in the corner and don't drop your trousers, you aren't going to be noticed by other customers (or Wi-Fi leechers), Starbucks staff, or even the security cameras which probably won't be aimed in that direction. You'd only be noticed if Starbucks was actively surveilling the connection to see what sites are visited.

    I guess you can have a #2.5 where someone notices someone looking at conventional pornography, which is against Starbucks policy, and Starbucks asks the person to leave the premises. Then call the cops if they don't leave.

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    • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday November 29 2018, @09:49PM (1 child)

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday November 29 2018, @09:49PM (#767947) Journal

      I was thinking that if someone has so little self control (and self respect) that they must to be able to watch pr0n at any moment of the day, maybe they should treat themselves to some VR glasses for the sake of others nearby.

      But then I'm sure Enough is Enough would have some objections to this.

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      • (Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday November 29 2018, @10:39PM

        by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Thursday November 29 2018, @10:39PM (#767972) Journal

        They could simply download it, or even torrent the porn (accessing a torrent site rather than a porn site) for later use. I wonder if the Starcocks filter will stop them from doing that?

        Something something tragedy of the commons.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 30 2018, @03:13AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 30 2018, @03:13AM (#768125)

    Bzzzt Wrong!
    Don't tell the staff. They might think you are the culprit and have you arrested. Or some other God awful action against you.

    I have done something similar at McDonalds. They tried to pin the problem on me.

    Just yesterday I tried to do the right thing. Note. Bad.

    If you need help then call the cops. Our stay out of it.

    • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday November 30 2018, @09:24PM

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday November 30 2018, @09:24PM (#768467) Journal

      Depending on where you live, even calling the cops may be a bad idea.

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday November 30 2018, @08:32AM

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Friday November 30 2018, @08:32AM (#768209) Homepage
    Why did you remove the conditional part of the sentence in #3?

    Compare "If you break the law you should be locked up" with "you should be locked up" - completely different in meaning.

    Sub-sentence quotes aren't quotes, they're fabrications.
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