Comment on Has ethernet become illegitimate? A librarian flipped out after spotting me using ethernet

• coffeeClean@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So the protected class they are discriminating against here is “doesn’t want to use wifi”?

  The UDHR specifically protects people from discrimination on the basis of property. You cannot treat someone different under the UDHR for owning less property than someone else. Only serving people who bought a mobile phone and paid for a subscription violates that provision.

  You had the means to access the Internet, you chose not to use them.

  I did not have a mobile phone on me. I could have gone home to fetch my phone because incidentally I happened to have a phone with service. But I would not have had time to return to the library and complete my task before it closed. I’ve gone over 6 months with no phone service at all sometimes. If I were in one of those time periods, connecting would have been impossible. My phone access is touch and go. I let my service die whenever nothing critical comes up that demands it for a period of time.

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  • chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I guarantee that a librarian would have helped you if you told them you didn’t have your phone on you.

    I don’t buy your story because you’re trying to paint yourself as a victim of some nefarious scheme when in reality you wanted to use a free service in a way the provider doesn’t allow.

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    • coffeeClean@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I guarantee that a librarian would have helped you if you told them you didn’t have your phone on you.

      I did tell the librarian I did not have a phone. It’s what led up to green lighting my request to plugin.

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  • deweydecibel@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Did the library have the desktop set up for public use, as libraries all have nowadays?

    Then they were providing you equal access to their internet connection, they just weren’t going to let you do it on your computer unless your computer connected to their internet connection by satisfying their security requirements.

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    • coffeeClean@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I answered this in another reply. The PC room was closed. In my area the PCs are closed part of the day for some reason (in several libraries), when the library is open for books and wifi.

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