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A San Francisco library is turning off Wi-Fi at night to keep people without housing from using it (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by withersailor@aussie.zone to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not quite to aggressive architecture levels of dickishness, but still.

[–] briellebouquet@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it's the exact same thing imo :(

[–] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Our local library, which is usually really great, started playing loud classical music at the entrance after hours to shoo away the unhoused. I'm glad they stopped doing that after a couple months; that's lowered my usually-high opinion of them.