A San Francisco library is turning off Wi-Fi at night to keep homeless people from using it

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[–][deleted] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

Yeah, I live in the bay area unfortunately. I don't have a 'side' on this particular incident, this is all bad. I am exasperated at the nightmare they have created here with their gross mismanagement and reactionary flip-flopping. This is indicative of a city that has no handle whatsoever on the problems they have created with their policies

[–]ID10T 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

There's two sane people commenting on that story that the homeless people mainly use the wifi at night to jerk off to porn in public. Lol bleeding hearts are like oh noes the poor neighbors experiencing unhousedness won't get to finish their online college courses at night.

I'm not indifferent. I've been extremely poor and even homeless myself. But I worked my ass off to get to a better place. And I know how many resources are available in CA if you want help.

[–]awdrifter 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Block the porn sites then.

[–]jet199Instigatrix 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

unless it also blocks reddit and twitter then that's no good

[–]William_World 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

not realistic, there's so many, they can never block them all

[–]hfxB0oyA 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Sorry to hear that. Is it as bad in your area of the city as we're hearing vis-a-vis the drug use, street defecation, etc?

[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

In downtown SF it is indeed as you hear in the news, shit and passed out junkies on the sidewalks. Of course they also refuse to put in porta-potties lest it attract more of them to the area. Oakland and San Jose are more just littered with tent encampments under bypasses and on the sides of streets. Same issues, but the poop and drugs are a bit more out of sight. There's also illegally parked motor home and cargo van rows with semi-homeless people with jobs who can't afford $3000/month for a 1-bedroom apartment.

[–]jet199Instigatrix 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I guess you're just sticking around for the reparations.