Some victories take place within only two hours of letting our voice be heard while others take much longer, and that is OK.
Over a year ago, One Million Moms and AFA partnered with Enough Is Enough (EIE), an organization pioneering Internet safety, along with 75 other family organizations. Together we encouraged McDonald’s and Starbucks to lead corporate America in filtering access to pornography, child porn, and online threats from their WiFi. McDonald's responded rapidly and positively and began exploring options for WiFi filtering. To date, Starbucks has yet to respond.
In the first quarter of 2016, McDonald’s began to implement their new filtered WiFi policy in its corporate-owned restaurants in the U.S. and made the same service available to franchisees. While McDonald's wasn't aware of any pornography-related incidents in their stores, the move to offer filtered WiFi access is clearly a major step in the right direction. The bottom line – the majority of McDonald’s restaurants now offer safer WiFi access to their patrons.
McDonald’s has been extremely cooperative and helpful, and we would like to thank the company collectively. McDonald’s has not only been a delight to work with but has listened to customer concerns, as well.
Please sign our petition and thank McDonald’s for listening and for making a commitment to children and family safety. We hope more companies follow its lead and create a safe WiFi zone.
Click here to sign the Thank You McDonald's petition.
