Gee. If you want to get into the news for all the wrong reasons, I’m pretty sure that this would be on the list of ways to do it. Canadian coffee and doughnut king Tim Horton’s will not let let customers who use their in restaurant WiFi to access Xtra which is a gay news site according to the Toronto Star:
Staff at Dailyxtra.com, the online home for the free newspaper Xtra that’s distributed in Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver, say they heard complaints from readers that the site was inaccessible at Tim Hortons.
The publication asked that the site be unblocked, assuming it might have been blacklisted in error.
But publisher and editor-in-chief Brandon Matheson says an email from Tim Hortons stated the site was “not appropriate for all ages viewing in a public environment.”
The email went on to say the company blocked Dailyxtra.com as part of its mission to provide “a safe and pleasant experience” for customers and “a friendly environment.”
Oh, this has blown up on Twitter big time. Do a search of @dailyxtra and @TimHortons and you’ll see what I mean.
Now I have not been to the website in question, but I’m guessing that I’m not going to find any pornographic content there. Which begs this question: Do Tim Horton’s really think that this wouldn’t blow up and make them look like total homophobes? Seriously, it’s 2013 and not 1975. All Tim Horton’s has managed to do is to anger the LGBT community and those who support them, which would be a whole lot of straight people. They buy coffee and I’m guessing that Starbucks and Country Time are about to get a major bump in business until Tim Horton’s remedies this explains how this could possibly happen. And that explanation better be good.
UPDATE: According to the Toronto Star, Tim Horton’s has apologized and is working on resolving the issue. Here’s what their talking head spokesperson had to say:
“It shouldn’t have been blocked, in fact we’re working on unblocking it — it may already be unblocked, it should’ve never been blocked in the first place,” said spokeswoman Michelle Robichaud.
“We certainly appreciate when people bring this kind of stuff to our attention and the statement made by our WiFi vendor was made in error.”
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Tim Horton’s In Resturant WiFi Blocks Access To Gay News Site #whatweretheythinking [UPDATED]
Gee. If you want to get into the news for all the wrong reasons, I’m pretty sure that this would be on the list of ways to do it. Canadian coffee and doughnut king Tim Horton’s will not let let customers who use their in restaurant WiFi to access Xtra which is a gay news site according to the Toronto Star:
Staff at Dailyxtra.com, the online home for the free newspaper Xtra that’s distributed in Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver, say they heard complaints from readers that the site was inaccessible at Tim Hortons.
The publication asked that the site be unblocked, assuming it might have been blacklisted in error.
But publisher and editor-in-chief Brandon Matheson says an email from Tim Hortons stated the site was “not appropriate for all ages viewing in a public environment.”
The email went on to say the company blocked Dailyxtra.com as part of its mission to provide “a safe and pleasant experience” for customers and “a friendly environment.”
Oh, this has blown up on Twitter big time. Do a search of @dailyxtra and @TimHortons and you’ll see what I mean.
Now I have not been to the website in question, but I’m guessing that I’m not going to find any pornographic content there. Which begs this question: Do Tim Horton’s really think that this wouldn’t blow up and make them look like total homophobes? Seriously, it’s 2013 and not 1975. All Tim Horton’s has managed to do is to anger the LGBT community and those who support them, which would be a whole lot of straight people. They buy coffee and I’m guessing that Starbucks and Country Time are about to get a major bump in business until Tim Horton’s remedies this explains how this could possibly happen. And that explanation better be good.
UPDATE: According to the Toronto Star, Tim Horton’s has apologized and is working on resolving the issue. Here’s what their
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