Posted on 12/01/2018 9:09:02 AM PST by rktman
The multi-national coffee chain Starbucks, which has 28,916 shops worldwide and 14,451 in the United States, said it would provide pornography-free Wi-Fi in its U.S. stores starting in 2019. This is happening because of pressure, over many years, from a coalition led by the internet safety group Enough is Enough (EIE).
In an email to Business Insider, a Starbucks representative said the company had “identified a solution” to block porn in its U.S. stores, which it would implement in 2019 – over two years after the coffee chain initially said it would do so, and six years after it began filtering Wi-Fi in its stores in the United Kingdom.
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Some straight guy needs to go in there and start screaming about how he can’t access his gay porn and how homophobe Starbucks is. Would go viral in a heartbeat.
Libs love coffee and porn. It’s like Corn Flakes and Milk to them.
I’m surprised. I can honestly say that I have never seen porn in a Starbucks store. And regardless of whether they block porn or not, how many people are there who are going to watch porn in a public setting? And if they are doing that, isn’t the problem with those people, not the Wi-Fi? Can’t they be asked to leave?
No more Fapachino?
lol......
Ah, I don’t drink coffee, also it was cultural appropriation from Italians, some of their products, so I can’t go out of principal :)
The new policy should discourage at least some of the homeless people that Starbucks said could stay there.
Futile gesture since an increasing number of internet users have unlimited data and don’t even bother logging in to the free WiFi businesses offer their customers.
Some twenty years back I worked as a contract network engineer at a software company who had hired some Russian programmers. There were no private offices, and one of them would look at hardcore porn on his computer while working, in full view of female employees and managers. I don't know if they finally fired him - but he was still there when I left to take another job. I think they were facing a release deadline and couldn't afford to get rid of him.
They stole it from the Turks who stole it from Yemen.
Starbucks...You can't beat it!
“No more Fapachino?”
You win the internet today.
Libraries have been blocking porn for a long time, so it’s surprising that Starbucks took so long to figure it out. The hard part (that’s a play on words, son...) would be building a personal or corporate definition of what is porn and what is not. Of course, if they filter based on porn content, they can also block political content, so Starbucks could become the new Google.
Lol
Homo porn ok
who stole it from Ethiopia!
Don’t be shocked but people with Obamaphones are well beyond flip phones and into iPhones and Galaxies.
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