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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Some people just go too far.

Some people just go too far. No wonder there is still homophobia with people out like this. Since when was Family Planning a gay site?


McDonald's is being accused of homophobia after it blocked gay websites from its new free Wi-Fi service at its restaurants.
People trying to access the lifestyle website GayNZ.com discovered they could not find the site, among others, and the website challenged the fast-food giant -- which offers free WiFi access in 132 of its restaurants nationwide -- to review its access policy.
"McDonald's must by now be able to find a more sophisticated way of judging the suitability of actual content for your restaurants rather than just blocking out wholesale an entire site which provides much valuable and family-friendly lifestyle information and service."
There appeared to be no consistency in McDonald's policy, GayNZ.com said.
A NZ Aids Foundation site was not blocked but Family Planning, Rainbow Youth, Agender and others were.
However, McDonald's said it was a family restaurant chain, and as part of offering the Wi-Fi service, its policy was that content must be of a family friendly nature, or suitable for a child to view.
"Because of this, access to a number of websites is blocked, including access to GayNZ.com, gambling, tobacco and adult mature content websites," a McDonald's spokeswoman said.
"You will also appreciate that there are inevitably teething problems with the introduction of a new service and getting our filtering process right is one such issue.
McDonald's said it was happy to review websites on a case by case basis, if customers believe that sites have been unjustifiably blocked.
However, all links and advertisements must also be acceptable.

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