Something’s rotten in Paradise: Paradise Bakery filters their WIFI!
Final grades are due this week. Everything is coming together very quickly, and I’ve been sitting here at Paradise Bakery since they unlocked the door this morning. I’ve always recommended this place, but I am about to rethink that. Read below and please repost. (*Yes, I know other people do, too.)
Dear Paradise Bakery,
I am an online instructor who sits for hours in Paradise Bakeries around Chandler and Tempe, AZ working, grading, web developing. While I am here, I patronize you. I buy lunches, breakfasts, drinks and cookies from you all of the time. I appreciate your very fast wireless internet connections, and I recommend you to the multitudes of other instructors nationally and all of my students (about 320 students a year). This is advertising you can never buy.
Now today I am sitting here in Paradise (like the pun?), and find paradise ain’t all that nice right now. I tried to go to a legal torrent site to download FREE, LEGAL media for my class. It was blocked. I then tried to go to Vimeo.com where I recommend my students to post videos (some of which I need to grade) and where I post my own daughter’s videos for her grandparents to enjoy from the east coast. I disagree but understood the torrent block, but the Vimeo block was incredulous. Now I’ve not even bothered to see what else is blocked here but believe me, if I cannot work because I am crippled by your filters then I won’t work here. I will work elsewhere (your competitor in my neighborhood is Wildflower Bread Company), and I will not recommend my colleagues, college students, and high school students bother working in a place that filters sites that are legal and valuable.
I will respectfully await your reply email to these concerns,
Thank you,
Devon Adams
An East Coast family living deep in the Southwest.