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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)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

The residents don’t want the homeless hanging around outside the library and turning off the wifi would reduce their incentive to be there.

i mean bluntly, sucks to be them? but get over it. homeless people are people too! the obvious solution is to provide them with social services first if this is the objection (which, to be clear, it generally isn't--it's that homeless people exist and aren't out of mind)