Starbucks to block porn sites starting next year

[terry78]

I like how they just now felt this was something that needed to be addressed.
Starbucks says it’ll block porn on its public Wi-Fi next year

 

[Teelie]

I was thinking how much of a problem it could be but then I remembered what seemingly 2/3rd's of the internet is made of.

 

[SPO2 Dalisay]

I wonder how sophisticated their protection software will be. Other places block more than porn, it could be just about any site without nanny filters

 

[Teelie]

And like virtually every other nanny filter it will miss a lot of stuff and block a lot of innocent stuff that has nothing to do with porn. But if you're using Starbucks wifi you get what you pay for.

 

[Lily Adler]

It's not porn! It's research for my screenplay!

 

[Tanin]

I kinda assumed this was already done.

 

[terry78]

It's not porn! It's research for my screenplay!

That doesn't explain why you're starring in it .

 

[The Shape]

Next year's headline:

STARBUCKS SALES DROP 50%

 

[Arachnerd]

I'm sure this was something the public desperately wanted to know.

That doesn't explain why you're starring in it .

Let him have his dream now.

 

[Limonade]

And like virtually every other nanny filter it will miss a lot of stuff and block a lot of innocent stuff that has nothing to do with porn. But if you're using Starbucks wifi you get what you pay for.

?? What year are we living in? 2000s? IIRC, "nanny filters" have improved immensely over the years. Are you going by your experience in college or something?

 

[Black Narcissus]

My good man, please get me the same order as the milf in front me, Quad venti extra ice 2 pump white mocha, 2 pump either cinnamon dolce, hazelnut, and the latest vid of Blacked.

Will that be all mister, uh? Call me Mike Van Peebles.

Are you related by any chance to actor and director Mario Van Peebles?

Not at all good sir, not at all. Now, take this quarter and add extra foam on that latte.

 

[psylockolussus]

Majority of their customers must be visiting porn sites while accessing their wifi.

 

[Brutikus]

You have to be more than a bit odd to be surfing porn at Starbucks.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

 

[Yowza]

The fact that they made a press release on this I'm confused about. Enough is Enough advocacy group's been on them of all places? It's always been banned there according to a report on Mashable (yeah can't link there as news article contains link to the SFW/Safe for Work page now being touted by one of these streaming depots).

Anyway, I'm sick of this woke politically correct smartphone prudish yet crude snarky/smarmy society we live in now. Current society always finds a way to be grating against the most recent past not always in a good way. Our government needs to just **** and declare complete anarchy already.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

The fact that they made a press release on this I'm confused about. Enough is Enough advocacy group's been on them of all places? It's always been banned there according to the following report: Pornhub responds to Starbucks porn ban with a clever new SFW idea

I'm sick of this woke politically correct smartphone prudish yet crude snarky/smarmy society we live in now. Current society always finds a way to be grating against the most recent past not always in a good way. Our government needs to just **** and declare complete anarchy already.

For accuracy's sake...

The quote about the "banning" is:

Starbucks recently noted that using its WiFi to view pornography has always been banned, it's just lacked the technological tools to actually filter all that stuff out, something they promised to do back in 2016.

The italicized in your post is... somewhat confounding. You realize that Donna Rice is a well known CONSERVATIVE activist, right? A self professed "pro-life Christian conservative"? So... it's odd to be complaining using buzz words and general tone of argument used by the online Right to criticize the "SJWs" to describe Rice and her confederates in terms of this story.

Donna Rice Hughes: One woman's case for Donald Trump

I also fail to see what the muddled observation "Current society always finds a way to be grating against the most recent past not always in a good way" has to do with a private company following through with a policy they made public in 2016 but could not enforce to the fullest until now?


I get it... we'd all love to *********e in public to porn while drinking overpriced coffee and biscottis harder than the average male erection... I just guess Starbucks doesn't want to get on board the public viewing of pornography train that's apparently a rallying cry for... conservatives against other conservatives?

Yeah, I think you're all over the map here.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

They can make it inaccessible in their stores, it is one of their rights to do that.
It's not like they influence telecommunication companies and other businesses to ban you from being able to stream that stuff in general.

 

[Dark Raven]

You have to be more than a bit odd to be surfing porn at Starbucks.

You'd have to be really addicted to be going there for what would normally be a short pit stop in your coffee break for an Espresso and some porn.

 

[Teelie]

?? What year are we living in? 2000s? IIRC, "nanny filters" have improved immensely over the years. Are you going by your experience in college or something?

I never had to deal with Nanny filters myself but I know they can't possibly catch everything. It's impossible. Not unless they installed China's Firewall, in which case it will also catch a lot of not-porn stuff that might contain nudity.

 

[Mandon Knight]

No more orders with 'froth on top' for anyone then.....

 

[Pink Ranger]

biscottis harder than the average male erection...

Challenge accepted!

 

[Yowza]

For accuracy's sake...

The quote about the "banning" is:

The italicized in your post is... somewhat confounding. You realize that Donna Rice is a well known CONSERVATIVE activist, right? A self professed "pro-life Christian conservative"? So... it's odd to be complaining using buzz words and general tone of argument used by the online Right to criticize the "SJWs" to describe Rice and her confederates in terms of this story.

Donna Rice Hughes: One woman's case for Donald Trump

I also fail to see what the muddled observation "Current society always finds a way to be grating against the most recent past not always in a good way" has to do with a private company following through with a policy they made public in 2016 but could not enforce to the fullest until now?


I get it... we'd all love to *********e in public to porn while drinking overpriced coffee and biscottis harder than the average male erection... I just guess Starbucks doesn't want to get on board the public viewing of pornography train that's apparently a rallying cry for... conservatives against other conservatives?

Yeah, I think you're all over the map here.

That's a lot to respond to and in hurry at moment but just want to say the formatting of the text is more incidental than anything as didn't realize 1 part was itallicized and 1 part bolded? I edited the post last night right before your response as my cpu acting bit laggy and difficult to get way wanted.

For the bolded part, the sarcasm emoticon I put at the end for humor's sake in original post though thankfully. Anyway, for the itallicized part I don't identify myself by a political party. I just find it confusing sometimes where the source of a press release (or why it's news) too often. I was confused at why it's even news as of course appropriate for a business to block certain types of content in public settings. How news stories are generated, muddled dissemination of information leads to lots of guided perception/opinions all too often. Ugh, gotta run at moment but hopefully cleared up a little bit. I didn't mean to offend.

 

[Limonade]

I never had to deal with Nanny filters myself but I know they can't possibly catch everything. It's impossible. Not unless they installed China's Firewall, in which case it will also catch a lot of not-porn stuff that might contain nudity.

eh... the occurrence of people looking for porn in Starbucks is already rare, as they have stated. And they're are not like some private companies that make a living off of nsfw website filtering... so I assume that some trial and error correction will be needed. But it comes with the territory of implementing new things. China's Firewall is run by the Chinese government... while I don't expect Starbucks to be run at that same level--filtering has come a long way over the years. Even letting you bypass content that's considered "grey" in content.

 

[Yowza]

My initial impression was wow a news report on this so maybe Starbucks is really having issues on this but then of course doubts set in and wondered why this was generated in the first place as probably unlikely a lot of people do this at a public cafe for people to walk past and see unless they sit in a corrner downloading torrent files I don't know. Starbucks is a franchise so perhaps they're issuing a press release to go along with that (a local cafe for instance not have to worry about trailblazing standards for the industry just themselves I suppose). However, I find it ridiculous if they're feeling pressured to assure people they're not a place that supports "indecency" (if that's how one wants to put all porn) if they're being given a hard time on social media or by advocacy groups because of something unrelated to the news article.

As far as the whole culture change remarked on in my earlier post:
We all know how music and fashion changed in the 90's perhaps as partly due to a reaction as to how it was in the 80's. Internet culture in the 00's I think has undergone a subtle yet profound shift this past decade. Certain news articles that may or may not be pressure induced telegraphed by follow-up articles with the reactions that go with it is like spinning a wheel on wheel of fortune. Only instead of a dollar amount it's a contextualization that will pass then that gives the next news story as things oscillate about it seems to me sometimes.

 

[Flash525]

Because watching pornography whilst enjoyling your Starbucks Coffee was ever the norm?