Google-Funded Free Wi-Fi Kiosks Are Scrapping Web Browsing Because Too Many People Were Using it For Porn (businessinsider.com)

Posted by msmash on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @08:10AM from the wi-fi-nazi dept.

This is why New Yorkers can't have nice things. LinkNYC, the initiative to install super-fast wifi hubs in New York City, is suspending web browsing on all its tablets after 8 months due to "inappropriate behavior," the company says, according to a report on BusinessInsider. From the article:Google parent company Alphabet funds LinkNYC through its spinoff Sidewalk Labs. "... Some users have been monopolizing the Link tablets and using them inappropriately, preventing others from being able to use them while frustrating the residents and businesses around them," the company writes in a statement. DNAInfo previously reported that people were using the hubs to watch porn.

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So what by Anonymous Coward · 2016-09-14 08:11 · Score: 5, Funny

If I want to watch porn and masturbate at a kiosk, who are you to take away my American freedoms? George Washington fought for my right to masturbate at kiosks.
It begs to say... by bettodavis · 2016-09-14 08:17 · Score: 5, Funny

I'm utterly shocked about this completely unexpected development.
Re:Lol by Anonymous Coward · 2016-09-14 08:27 · Score: 5, Funny

That's even worse! Did you mean "than"?