WT: Starbucks said Friday that the coffee chain’s complimentary Wi-Fi will soon block X-rated websites, heeding the call of anti-porn activists who recently found similar success after urging McDonald’s to do the same.
“Once we determine that our customers can access our free Wi-Fi in a way that also doesn’t involuntarily block unintended content, we will implement this in our stores,” Starbucks said in a statement to CNN. “In the meantime, we reserve the right to stop any behavior that interferes with our customer experience, including what is accessed on our free Wi-Fi.”
Starbucks‘ announcement came the same week advocates revealed that McDonald’s recently agreed to implement porn filters at most of its U.S. restaurants in response to pleas from groups including the National Center on Sexual Exploitation and Enough is Enough, a non-profit organization formed in 1994 with the goal of confronting online pornography and sexual predation. more here
Well, if you can’t go for the porn, you can always go for the shitty coffee …
izlamo delenda est …
Good.
Maybe the library can start selling coffee. I’d hate to see the pervs being denied access to free porn, while sipping cappuccinos. Seems unconstitutional.
There had to be a reason people went to Starbucks, no way it was for coffee that tastes like oil pan sludge
I didn’t need another reason not to go there.
Block a direct request, that’s simple. Not so many requests are direct with proxies, VPN, Dark Net, etc. In a nutshell, it’s extremely simple to bypass whatever Starbucks thinks it’s blocking. Someone could establish their own access point using a proxy and Starbuck’s bandwidth with an open public SSID, to make it a seamless unrestricted network under Starbucks roof that customers can (and will) choose over a restricted network. That’s something I would do, but ya’all are on your own–I don’t do Starbucks.
If it is good enough for the Library of Congress it should be good enough for Starbucks.
Librarians unity to stop this “no porn” madness.
Guess I’ll have to go to the park.
Please. I don’t drink coffee, and if I did I sure wouldn’t be foolish enough to pay $4.00 a cup for it.
Both McDonald’s and Starbucks are private companies that allow public access. So they can block- or not – any wifi access that they choose.
In McDee’s case, I can see them blocking porn as theirs is a family environment.
Starbucks, they’re supposed to be more adult oriented. So them blocking wifi porn might affect their bottom line. We’ll wait and see.
@Eternal Cracker: That looked like english, but I couldn’t understand a word of it.
DAMMIT!
No more frapporncinos for me!
I’ve been to a Fivebucks once and I just can’t picture someone kicked back and watching porn while sipping a latte. Probably fixing a problem that never existed for the hype.
The same goes for McD.
“I’ll have a double crapachino and gob of hand lotion please”
I make good coffee at home, but if I want the Starbux experience I pour a cup, yell my name out incorrectly, light a 5 dollar bill on fire and scrape the ashes into the coffee. Now on top of all that I guess I’ll just have to rub one out….
I’ll buy at Starbucks when it is the only convenient source. Their medium roast doesn’t make me gag too badly. As long as they don’t ban gun porn I’ll be ok with that.
@The Rat Fink – that was my fat fingered down vote. I meant it to be up, of course. Mea culpa, and sorry!
We used to have something else that prevented people from viewing porn in public.
They called it Decency