I won't be able to watch porn movies online at McDonald's anymore
According to Internet safety group Enough Is Enough, the fast-food chain giant started implementing WiFi filtering policies in its stores earlier this year. Today, the group reported that the vast majority of McDonald's restaurants today offer filtered WiFi networks.
"Parents can rest assured that when they or their children walk into a McDonald's, they will enjoy a safer, friendlier WiFi experience, filtered for pornography, child pornography, potential sexual abuse and violence," EIE "McDonald's deserves high praise for its corporate responsibility and commitment to the safety of children and families," Donna Rice Hughes, president, said in a statement Thursday.
The EIE has asked McDonald's to block pornography for two years, according to the New York Post. Other chains that have agreed to filter WiFi networks include Panera Bread, Subway and Chick-fil-A.
Since McDonald's began offering free WiFi in 2009, in addition to customers watching pornographic movies online, there have been other consequences that McDonald's did not expect.
In the UK, McDonald's and KFC outlets in Stoke-on-Trent barred teenage customers from congregating in fast-food restaurants because of free WiFi, eventually turning these places into brawl scenes.
Consider the positive effects of free WiFi. In 2013, The Wall Street Journal reported that many students rely on McDonald's for free WiFi, because the fast-food giant's 12,000 WiFi points tend to outnumber the roughly 15,000 public books in the United States that offer WiFi. Museums are easier to find.