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Starbucks Says It Will Start Blocking Porn On Its Stores' Wi-Fi In 2019 (nbcnews.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the internet-filtering dept.

Starbucks announced that it will start blocking pornography viewing on its stores' Wi-Fi starting in 2019. "A Starbucks representative told NBC News that the viewing of 'egregious content' over its stores' Wi-Fi has always violated its policy, but the company now has a way to stop it," reports NBC News. From the report: "We have identified a solution to prevent this content from being viewed within our stores and we will begin introducing it to our U.S. locations in 2019," the company representative said. The announcement was first reported by Business Insider and comes after a petition from internet-safety advocacy group Enough is Enough garnered more than 26,000 signatures. The nonprofit launched a porn-free campaign aimed at McDonald's and Starbucks in 2014, and it says that while McDonald's "responded rapidly and positively," Starbucks did not.

In a letter that [Enough is Enough CEO Donna Rice Hughes] said she received from Starbucks over the summer, the company vowed to address the issue "once we determine that our customers can access our free Wi-Fi in a way that also doesn't involuntarily block unintended content." Starbucks has not released details about how it plans to restrict the viewing of pornographic sites or illegal content over its Wi-Fi. In response, the vice president of YouPorn responded by sending a memo to staff banning Starbucks products from company offices starting Jan. 1, 2019.

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  1. That's petty by Actually,+I+do+RTFA · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In response, the vice president of YouPorn responded by sending a memo to staff banning Starbucks products from company offices starting Jan. 1, 2019.

    People bringing coffee to work is considered pretty normal. People watching porn at a coffee shop isn't. That VP is making YouPorn look pretty stupid.

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    1. Re: That's petty by Zero__Kelvin · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Let's use common sense instead. Math is useful sometimes, but in other times it just gives you a way to show that you are a clueless idiot. Remember all those news stories you saw about perverts being arrested for porn related transgressions at Starbucks? See all those stories about it when googling "porn Starbucks" or searching for it on YouTube? No, of course you don't, because as I said, and now easily proved without trying to flaunt my superior math skills. Good luck learning how to gather and process information without trying to sound superior but proving instead that you are a moron!

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  2. What about their prices? by reboot246 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They are really obscene!

  3. Re:can't block vpn's! by zlives · · Score: 3, Insightful

    most likely they will use some sort of DNS filter and call it a policy... blocking VPN's would actually affect way more people that actually do real work from starbucks. deep packet/ssl inspection MITM would probably not fly.

  4. Re:can't block vpn's! by ceoyoyo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nah, they'll block the obvious sites. They're responding to a bad press attack by a special interest group. They need to do something so they can say, see, we did something.