Starbucks Says It Is Finally Going to Block Customers from Watching Porn

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Viewing porn at Starbucks using its Wi-Fi network has always been against store policy, but it couldn’t prevent customers from doing so until now: the coffee giant told Business Insider that it finally has new tools to keep explicit content off its network, though it declined to get into specifics. “In response, a vice president at a top porn site sent a memo to staff banning Starbucks products from company offices starting Jan. 1, 2019.”

Starbucks declined to give details on the solution but said the company tested multiple tools, hoping to avoid accidentally blocking unoffensive sites. The rollout comes after years of pressure from the internet-safety organization Enough Is Enough. A petition from Enough Is Enough calling for Starbucks to filter pornography was signed by more than 26,000 people as of Wednesday.
 
Who the fuck watches porn at a Starbucks or any public place? Better yet, I'd love to see the statistics on the demographics: Age. Sex. The websites they browse, etc. You know... not for science but for my own selfish reasons.
 
Ok this is just gross, I didn't even know watching porn at Starbucks was a thing? Nothing like trying to enjoy some coffee and look over and some dude next to you is jerkin off to porn. Wow just wow.

I don't even jack off unless I got the entire house to myself and locked down. lol
 
Gee, whatever am I going to do with this VPN I have?.....

Ski said:
Who the fuck watches porn at a Starbucks or any public place? Better yet, I'd love to see the statistics on the demographics: Age. Sex. The websites they browse, etc. You know... not for science but for my own selfish reasons.
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Motley said:
Ok this is just gross, I didn't even know watching porn at Starbucks was a thing? Nothing like trying to enjoy some coffee and look over and some dude next to you is jerkin off to porn. Wow just wow.

I don't even jack off unless I got the entire house to myself and locked down. lol
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Wonder how far their WiFi signal broadcasts? I used to sit in a park across the street from a library and pickup the signal.
I would doubt if maybe a neighboring apartment or people in their vehicles are picking it up.
 
The Mad Atheist said:
Gee, whatever am I going to do with this VPN I have?.....
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Some of these rascal wifi providers have actually started blocking VPN's now too.

At first I could get away with running my VPN using TCP instead of UDP, and setting it to use the HTTPS port, 443, but even this doesn't seem to work sometimes anymore.

I don't have any interest in watching porn on anyone elses network, I just don't want these wifi networks to be used to harvest data on me (or anyone else for that matter)

Network blocking techniques aren't going to stop anyone from looking at porn using their mobile data, or looking at stored copies anyway.

The real way to police this is to ask people who are watching porn in your business to leave, not to fuck with the network.
 
Well, fuck it.....I'm going to McDonalds!


Also, I figured sites like these would already be blocked at these establishments......WTF.
 
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EODetroit said:
What if this is your porn:
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Well Discovery channel asked the question "Do bigger breasts increase ratings?" and then replaced one "mythtern" woman who was a fabricator, a welder, and all around knowledgeable shop person with Keri who was... a model (their ass model for one episode in fact).. and sure enough Keri and the other mythterns became a bigger part of the show until they became half of the show, like the original mythbusters didn't want to hang out with them anymore, but sure enough ratings went up, people started creepy fanclubs about Keri, and she did ads that really show what they think of a woman's place in science (hint: they were sexy ads)
 
I worked at a public library years ago. You'd be surprised by the amount of people that watch pr0n there. Couldn't shut it down by law, so just had to make sure nobody was choking the chicken or flicking the bean.
 
alxlwson said:
I worked at a public library years ago. You'd be surprised by the amount of people that watch pr0n there. Couldn't shut it down by law, so just had to make sure nobody was choking the chicken or flicking the bean.
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I've been to plenty of Starbuck's - I've never seen anyone watching porn. (Can't say I really pay attention either). I'd hope this is not a big problem. People should not watch porn in public anyway unless it is a venue where this could be deemed acceptable (not sure I have any examples!)
 
alxlwson said:
I've never set foot in one. I don't visit places where I am requested to check my iron.
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In my state, we have very, very specific signage requirements to make it a valid request. Most are not.
 
Joust said:
In my state, we have very, very specific signage requirements to make it a valid request. Most are not.
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I don't care either way. They don't want me, Ill spend my money elsewhere! Legal request or not, tells me everything I need to know.
 
alxlwson said:
I don't care either way. They don't want me, Ill spend my money elsewhere! Legal request or not, tells me everything I need to know.
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Oh, I agree 100%. I'm current protesting several stores for various reasons. And by that, I mean I don't spend my money there. Does it make a difference? Probably not, but it is the correct way to voice my opinion of their actions, I think.
 
seanreisk said:
The "Fappuccino" is no longer on the menu.


"I'd like a wi-fi key, a muffin, a triple-tall whipped cream with no latte, and a dozen napkins, please."
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You'll also need the key to the bathroom when the junky finally finishes his business in there.
 
People still go to Starbucks? Shitty coffee at a premium price, surrounded by customers trying to look cool and failing.

That said, I can understand somewhat people that surf for porn in public. It depends on how you are using the porn. If you are using it to get aroused or as spank material, doing it in public is just plain creepy to other people. If that is your thing, well, live how you wanna live. I sometimes use it for entertainment of a different nature, but do make sure no one else can see or hear it if I happen to be in public. My son and I do Rule 34 challenges sometimes. We look for odd/weird porn just to further prove the rule. "Black woman, Asian man", porn is an example. One of the more difficult ones actually. Never Rule 34 search My Little Pony, you will prolly regret it. Even if you are into that sort of thing.
 
Starbucks is terrible anyway. Overpriced shitty coffee that is often oily and burnt tasting at best. Their "seasonal flavors" are a load of horseshit. Just their regular coffee with whipped cream, and all the toppings unique to the drink are put on top. It's the coffee equivalent of buying vanilla ice cream and then dragging it through the candy store in toppings.

How Caribou, Einstein Bros and Biggby haven't smashed Starbucks out of existence is beyond me.
 
"BREAKING NEWS: Starbucks reports massive losses in store revenue after implementing something that most regulars considered to be almost as stupid as getting rid of the plastic straws and replacing them with paper straws inside plastic packaging..." :p
 
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Ski said:
Who the fuck watches porn at a Starbucks or any public place? Better yet, I'd love to see the statistics on the demographics: Age. Sex. The websites they browse, etc. You know... not for science but for my own selfish reasons.
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The results would be racist and sexist.
 
Ski said:
Who the fuck watches porn at a Starbucks or any public place?
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The Mad Atheist said:
Wonder how far their WiFi signal broadcasts? I used to sit in a park across the street from a library and pickup the signal.
I would doubt if maybe a neighboring apartment or people in their vehicles are picking it up.
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Exactly. I'm sure they noticed that their bandwidth used was not directly proportional to the number of customers in the shop. Some locations must have really been obvious.

I'm surprised that their WiFi ever went live without the filters in the first place.
 
Ski said:
Who the fuck watches porn at a Starbucks or any public place? Better yet, I'd love to see the statistics on the demographics: Age. Sex. The websites they browse, etc. You know... not for science but for my own selfish reasons.
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I would assume download for later use. Some people live off of SB wi-fi for their laptops and use data for everything else.
 
Nice to know the Progressives of today are the Victorians of yesteryear.
 
Before I moved one of my local Starbucks had a jerk off who would jerk off in the corner of a Safeway grocery store Starbucks (it was a big “stand alone” type built into the grocery store as a flagship.)

Cracked me up and my buddies girlfriend used to tell me about it all the time.

He didn’t need porn to do this and neither do you.
 
"We maintain the right to refuse porn service to anyone."

As companies become more vocal about their political stances, applying those stances to wifi could get interesting. Filtering out a political party for example. Or gun content. Or climate change content.

(disregarding the feasibility of such filters currently.)

I often work out of coffee shops, sometimes Starbucks. And my relationship with those businesses is as much as a bandwidth customer as a coffee customer.

I could imagine some potentially interesting case law, where someone attempts to set a legal precedent of treating Starbucks other someone else as a bandwidth service provider. Though I guess you could argue against that by pointing to time limits, port restrictions, etc. The bandwidth as a courtesy service, rather than a subject of a transaction.
 
Vader1975 said:
The porn company banning Starbucks products is funny but realistically they shouldn't be watching porn in public near children anyway... so ... why?
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So watching porn in public is ok if there are no children around ?
 
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