Coffee Bean’s ‘Free wifi’ Blocks Gay Blogs
Posted on June 12, 2009
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Despite advertising the availability of free wireless internet access at Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf coffee shops, the connection comes at the cost of “technical” discrimination. Philip Minton, who runs the Unite the Fight LGBT equality blog, couldn’t get internet connection at home, so he went to the Coffee Bean on 3rd and La Cienega, in West Hollywood, CA, to do his blog posting from there using their free Wi-Fi service.
Coffee Bean is another chain coffee shop, like Starbucks, with free Wi-Fi service for customers to use while sitting around drinking coffee and doing work, just relaxing, or meeting with people.
When Minton set up his computer and started to go through his news feed, accessing various other blogs, he got a message: that Pam’s House Blend is blocked due to “sexuality.” (Same thing for Towleroad among others.)
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