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Starbucks Promises to Block Porn on its Public Wi-Fi

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday November 29 2018, @10:15AM   
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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• other explicit material other explicit material (Score: 2, Informative) by VLM on Thursday November 29 2018, @07:30PM (1 child)

  by VLM (445) on Thursday November 29 2018, @07:30PM (#767872)

  other explicit material

  My guess is this is the real story. Sell the filter using kiddie pr0n, implement something else.

  Given the interesting political beliefs of the typical Starbucks customer, I suspect we're infinitely more likely to see gop.com or foxnews.com banned than we are to see reddit.com or redtube.com banned.

  Reddit is probably the best pr0n site I'm aware of at this time, and it's pretty hard without deep filtering to filter out /r/gonewild without filtering out /r/feminism or whatever, so a pity that deep filtering is so expensive now we'll have to sell all user traffic data to fund our filter what a completely unanticipated surprise.

  Essentially its a press release about how they have a complicated scheme to sell wifi user data for profit in the name of 'save the children'.

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• Re:other explicit material (Score: 2, Troll) by edIII on Thursday November 29 2018, @08:24PM

  by edIII (791) on Thursday November 29 2018, @08:24PM (#767913)

  Oh, shut the fuck up. You can't make everything political and a jab at the left you raving fucking loon.

  I'm sure that plenty of pearl-clutching mothers decrying the un-Christian behavior are also Republicans.

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