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Starbucks announced on Thursday it will do next year what it promised to do two years ago \u2014 it will begin blocking pornography and illegal content on its free Wi-Fi networks in stores throughout the U.S. <\/p>\n

“We have identified a solution to prevent this content from being viewed within our stores and we will begin introducing it to our U.S. locations in 2019,” a Starbucks spokeswoman told NPR in an emailed statement. <\/p>\n

She added that, “while it rarely occurs, the use of Starbucks public Wi-Fi to view illegal or egregious content is not, nor has it ever been permitted.” However, despite the ban the company has yet to implement technology to enforce the policy in the U.S. (Starbucks does have Internet filters in place in the U.K., CNN reported<\/a>.) <\/p>\n

The spokeswoman declined to offer details about precisely when and how it plans to make pornographic or illegal content inaccessible in the new year. <\/p>\n

The move toward making the coffee shops porn-free follows renewed pressure by the Internet-safety advocacy group Enough Is Enough. It has called for Starbucks to follow through on a 2016 promise to apply Wi-Fi filters at its company-owned stores around the globe. <\/p>\n