Starbucks Fights Coffee Shop Porn

EVERY DAY ON THE INTERNET HAPPEN THINGS, from which I want to either laugh or cry. Inevitably the question is brewing: what are you doing?

On November 28, the American chain of coffee shops Starbucks issued a statement saying that starting next year, a special application will begin to work in all establishments to filter what users are viewing through public Wi-Fi. According to a company representative, this is due to a large percentage of porn content in query statistics.

The next day, the vice-president of one of the biggest pornography sites of YouPorn, Charlie Hughes, sent out a letter to his employees, in which he forbade them to buy and bring Starbucks products to the office. He stated that such a measure would be used as counter-sanctions against their initiative. The letter states that the ban will take effect on January 1, 2019.

Starbucks’s decision was largely made under pressure from Enough is Enough, which called on the company to take action against "prohibited content." At the end of November, they created a petition, which is currently signed by more than twenty thousand people. In 2016, this organization managed to achieve a similar ban on McDonald's porn on the fast food chain.

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