McDonalds Discriminates!

I couldn’t believe it, whilst in Coventry the other day I thought I’d pop into McDonalds to get a bite to eat and use their Wifi  so I could check on our server and sites, well it turns out that McDonalds discriminates against the paranormal spirituality, they blocked Ghosts-UK.

I opened a support ticket on the net providers help desk “The Cloud” (they provide the service to McDonalds) and they replied (Sorry I don’t have my original message):

Good afternoon Mr Bowers

Thank you for your enquiry. We are sorry to hear of your experience when accessing the free Wi-Fi provided by McDonalds but please be assured, we do not discriminate in anyway against any end users.

We provide the wireless internet service for McDonalds but we do not stipulate the parameters for the content filtering. That is set by McDonalds themselves.

Unfortunately we are not able to help you further with this issue but it may be worth you contacting McDonalds directly in order to resolve this issue.

And so, I then contact McDonalds:

During this visit and whilst waiting for some clients I thought I could get some work done whilst having some breakfast and then a few beverages however I’ve come to realise that McDonalds discriminates against people with their internet access and I find this sickening, disappointing and utterly wrong.

I work on various projects over the web one of them is assisting in the development a content management system and others revolve around niche areas of interest. One of the sites within our network is paranormal related and when accessing this site to update some details, moderate the site and to ensure our server was running I was met with an error telling me you wouldn’t allow me access to my own server.

None of our sites incite hate, racism, sexism or anything which could be considered illegal and I find it disgusting that you discriminate against me and thousands of users based upon their belief.

My family and I personally use McDonalds weekly and you never discriminate when taking our money do you? No, you take it everytime.

If you feel you must police the internet then perhaps your in the wrong business of fast food.

I notice from Googling whilst in McDonalds that you don’t discriminate against Christians, Jews and Hindus. I didn’t search for other religions but I suspect your OK with those too. You just don’t like Spiritualism or the paranormal and so you discriminate against us.

The site in question was http://ghosts-uk.net

I trust you will resolve this issue and permit users to visit our site should they choose to.

Not sure what they will say but regardless of anyone’s belief and choices in life providing it’s not hateful, damaging, racist,  or otherwise hurtful to others then I don’t see why McDonalds should offer a service and then discriminate against people, It’s just wrong yet they still take money from the very people they discriminate against.  I’m just glad they don’t run the country, there is a word for that type of leadership where your dictated to………. I’m sure you know it