Enough Is Enough (EIE), an Internet safety organization, praised the McDonald’s corporation® for their decision to filter public Wi-Fi from pornography and child pornography.
EIE launched its “National Porn Free Wi-Fi” campaign” in the fall of 2014, with nearly 50,000 petitions and 75 partner organizations encouraging McDonald’s and Starbucks to lead Corporate America in filtering Wi-Fi. Both companies were early adopters in the U.K., where they voluntarily filtered pornography on their public WiFi networks. McDonald’s responded rapidly and positively to the initial outreach to their CEO by EIE in spring 2014, and began exploring options for WiFi filtering. To date, Starbucks has yet to respond.
Enough is Enough Posted this Thank You on their website:
Mr. Steve Easterbrook
Chief Executive Officer
McDonald’s CorporationDear Mr. Easterbrook:
On behalf of concerned parents and families across the America, we want to thank you for stepping up as an industry leader in establishing a “P*rn-Free Wi-Fi” environment to filter access to harmful p*rn*graphy and child p*rn*graphy in the corporate-owned McDonald’s restaurants across the country as well as making the same service available to your franchisees. As you know, we at Enough Is Enough® were joined by 75 other family friendly organizations representing 50,000 petition signers that brought this issue to McDonald’s attention, and we are thrilled with McDonald’s rapid and proactive response. Furthermore, we are grateful that your company is leading the way in putting children and families first.
As a result of your demonstrative actions, parents can now rest easy knowing that their children are safer from the online harms noted above, as well as safer from potential sexual exploitation and predation, while dining in your establishments. McDonald’s is truly a family friendly restaurant!!
We are extremely proud to stand with you in this continuing fight to protect children and families online. Rest assured that we will be vigorously pursuing other U.S. companies to follow your lead in establishing P*rn-Free WiFi venues like McDonald’s. Thank You!
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