McDonalds And Starbucks Have Added Wifi Filters That Won't Allow Customers To Watch Porn Anymore

CHICAGO (TheBlaze/AP) — McDonald’s and Starbucks are implementing filtering technology that blocks customers using Wi-Fi from accessing pornography sites. The move follows a campaign from anti-pornography groups Enough Is Enough and the National Center on Sexual Exploitation to demand the chains filter out pornography. Oak Brook, Illinois-based McDonald’s says in a statement that Wi-Fi filtering has been activated in the majority of its nearly 14,000 restaurants nationwide. A spokesperson for Seattle-based Starbucks says it’s implementing filtering once it can find a system that “also doesn’t involuntarily block unintended content.” Enough Is Enough President Donna Rice Hughes applauds the moves and says the organization plans to push other businesses and venues to filter their Wi-Fis. The group posted letters of thanks to McDonald’s and Starbucks on its website following the announcement. “We are extremely proud to stand with you in this continuing fight to protect children and families online,” reads part of the letter to McDonald’s CEO Steve Easterbrook.

This is a mistake. This is a huge mistake. It seems like the right thing to do but it’s a mistake and will have unintended consequences. On the face, it’s common sense. Filter out porn sites on the wifi at McDonalds and Starbucks so they don’t have weirdos in their restaurants jerking off while eating an egg mcmuffin or drinking a cappuccino. Nobody wants to see that. So no more porn at those places. Done and done. The problem is that now this will release these public masturbators into the wild to go jerk off somewhere else in public. You think these freaks will get denied at Starbucks and think, “Welp. I tried my best. I guess Ill go jerk off on the couch at my house like a normal person”? Hell no. They’ll think of an even weirder place like a church pew or a school or your backyard. It’s better to centralize these public masturbators, lure them in and catch them. If anything, Starbucks and Mcdonalds should be promoting a carefree attitude towards porn at their establishments. Gotta catch’em all.