This Iconic Restaurant Chain Just Blocked Porn on Its Wi-Fi: Now Starbucks is Considering Doing the Same

Ben Johnson : Jul 19, 2016
LifeSiteNews.com

It's an "act of corporate responsibility and commitment to children and family safety." -Donna Rice Hughes

[LifeSiteNews] Customers across the nation learned this year that, when they go to the world's most popular fast food chain, pornography is no longer part of the combo. (Photo: Sorbis/Shutterstock/via LifeSiteNews)

McDonald's announced that it is filtering its free Wi-Fi to prevent patrons from exposing children to pornography inside its restaurants.

"I'm lovin' it!" said Donna Rice Hughes, president of Enough is Enough, a nonprofit founded in 1994 dedicated to children's online safety, upon hearing the news. "Parents can have peace of mind that, when they or their children go to McDonald's, they will have a safer and more friendly Wi-Fi experience, filtered from pornography" and "from potential sexual exploitation and predation."

She called the move an "act of corporate responsibility and commitment to children and family safety."

The group launched a petition drive in late 2014 asking McDonald's and Starbucks to filter their widely used public Wi-Fi to prevent customers from watching porn in public.

McDonald's responded by blocking pornographic websites from Wi-Fi at its corporate-owned stores, which account for about 10 percent of the fast food giant's 14,000 stores in the United States, early this year.

The company, which reported $25.4 billion in revenue in 2015, then offered the safer Wi-Fi to its franchisees, and the majority of its stores now use it, according to a company spokesman.

"I want to publicly thank McDonald's for making its Wi-Fi safer for its patrons," said Dawn Hawkins, executive director of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE), "McDonald's now joins the ranks of..."

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