• bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
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    6 days ago

    Absolutely. It was at least 10 years ago, but I’ll keep looking. As I remember it was a group of franchise locations that took it upon themselves to boost their wifi revenue, not a corporate directive, and they got their asses handed to them by the the FCC and Marriott corporate.

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      Oh shit. I didn’t know that was illegal. I worked security in several hotels in the Knoxville and tricities TN areas, and probably 3 out of 10 of them did this. Mostly upscale hotels.

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        Yeah I thought a bunch of Vegas hotels did this too. Thought someone was talking about this on a darknet diaries episode.