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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

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[–] s900mhz 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why not? It cost them next to nothing to leave it on. It actually is more work to turn off and on the router every day. I don’t see why not being to check out books had to do with internet. Why does it have to be all or nothing?

[–] MrIamsosmrt@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would guess all commercial routers and access points hae the option to automate something like that. So you only have to set it up once and it's not really much work (unless something breaks)

[–] s900mhz 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah but that requires even less effort to automate than manually turning it off and on. But the point is why put in the effort at all to do this? I mean rhetorically because I know everyone just wants to push the homeless to “anywhere but here”