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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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[-] yunggwailo@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

classic nimby bs. what they dont realize of course is that getting rid of wifi isnt gonna stop them from congregating, theyll just congregate elsewhere

[-] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Which is the point. That's a win for the NIMBYs who got this policy enacted. It's literally no longer in their backyard.

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