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

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[–]hfxB0oyA 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Understanding that this is kind of against the whole principle of a library re: access to information, I can also see the local residents' side of things. I wonder if anyone has thought of using the problem to the city's advantage by locating an open wifi hotspot in another area where they would prefer to relocate the homeless population. Carrot rather than stick.

[–][deleted] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 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