Starbucks announced the decision to block access to porn content for visitors using Wi-Fi in its coffee shops in the United States. This long and persistently demanded from a network of activists. One of them, Donna Hughes, is in no hurry to believe that the company will perform this technically difficult promise. «I will not believe until you do,» wrote Hughes in his Twitter.
A promise is a promise! @EIETweets and I will not give up until @Starbucks has filtered its Wi-Fi. https://t.co/YqQeK6it3z @Kate_H_Taylor via @businessinsider #Starbucks #SafeWiFi
— Donna Hughes (@DonnaRiceHughes) November 29, 2018
Moreover, that is still the official release on the subject from Starbucks was not. The news of the impending decision was published by Business Insider, citing an email from an anonymous official representative of Starbucks.
A petition to the company demanding to restrict access to pornoresursy signed more than 25 thousand people. First and foremost, the parents, concerned about the ability of their children to circumvent parental controls on a home computer to access porn sites via Wi-Fi in public areas, often in the cafe.
Going to meet the parents, in 2016, blocked access to porn from their Wi-Fi large companies such as McDonald’s, Subway and Chick-fil-A. the Reason for postponing the decision of Starbucks to the end not clear. In the letter, referred to by Business Insider, says that the company has long sought a reliable technical solution which will not limit in error access harmless sites. It also indicates that, most likely, the promise will be fulfilled in 2019.
