Re:San Francisco library turning off WiFi at night to keep h...
by notaustinpowers on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @05:26PM
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Kick 'em while they're down right? How dare you, a public citizen, use public services!
Re:San Francisco library turning off WiFi at night to keep h...
by stickfigure on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @05:58PM
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Nobody is being denied public services; the WiFi works for everyone during daylight hours. It's just turned off at night to discourage people from sleeping there. They close and lock the library doors too.
Re:San Francisco library turning off WiFi at night to keep h...
by notaustinpowers on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @09:39PM
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We have loitering laws that would then go to prevent homeless people from using those services during daylight hours. My library requires you to have a drivers license and prove you have an address within that city/town to be able to use it. So a homeless person without a DL, or who never had an address in that city would not be allowed access. And could be arrested for loitering for just existing near a library during daylight hours.
Re:San Francisco library turning off WiFi at night to keep h...
by stickfigure on Thursday June 15, 2023 @01:13AM
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The article is about turning off WiFi at night. Is your library the Eureka Valley library, or even in San Francisco? If not, speculation about what they do/don't/could permit is not constructive to the conversation.
Homelessness is a complex subject but the impact of homeless people is not spread evenly. The people that live in that neighborhood (I used to be one) don't want it concentrated there. A few homeless people might be tolerable; a major camp is not, and free wifi at night acts as a magnet. I don't blame them at all for shutting it off.