Homophobia at the Premier Inn

gik

lincroft1710 wrote: »

Try Scun(t)horpe

...or Scunthorpe?

lincroft1710

Thunderxx wrote: »

I feel that it is out-dated homophobia.

What does anyone else think

It's not even in date homophobia. If Premier Inn were homophobic they would not accept the booking for you and your partner.

DCFC79

geerex wrote: »

Move along people, nothing to see here.

Definitely nothing to see here.

Bollotom

Yeah, that S!!!!horpe, Wealdrome.How did you do that. lol

wealdroam

Bollotom wrote: »

Yeah, that S!!!!horpe, Wealdrome.How did you do that. lol

Do what???

Gordon_Hose

Bollotom wrote: »

Yeah, that S!!!!horpe, Wealdrome.How did you do that. lol

Use a different colour for a letter in the word.

bod1467

Like this ... Scunthorpe

edinburgher

As has been said, filters aren't necessarily very sophisticated.

You will probably find that whole hosts of websites are blocked as 'categories'. This will be because whoever Premier Inn are paying for a solution that blocks unsuitable content will have their software set up in such a way that your social network is blocked.

It's not personal, it's not even got anything to do with Premier Inn really. Also, there's no real way they'll get their provider to make your site an exception. There are probably thousands of sites blocked that shouldn't be, whoever said they'd remedy it probably had no concept of how these things operate.

There's no need to get worked up about something that's not a real issue

Fella

It's not just their Inns that are homophobic. Their ship is even worse.

Poppie68

Thunderxx wrote: »

Hi everyone,

I own a lesbian social network with around 100, 000 members.

18 months ago I stayed at the Premier Inn at Heathrow and was annoyed and upset when I was unable to get onto my website because their firewall blocked the keyword Lesbian stating that it was "Harmful to the young public".

There is absolutely no adult content on my website.

I had several emails and calls with their complaints department who said that it would be changed.

I hadn't been to another Premier Inn until Friday night when I took my partner to London for her Birthday.

I needed to make a small change on my site that I could not do from an Apple device so I used the public computer provided by the Premier Inn.

To my dismay any site that has a keyword of lesbian is blocked because it is "Harmful to the young public".

I feel that it is out-dated homophobia. If keywords belonging to other minority groups were banned I think lawyers would be suing for discrimination!

What does anyone else think and has anyone any advice on how I can try to get this changed?

Thanks in advance,

Jane

Now i'm sure if you really believed they are homophobic you would'nt of booked again after discovering this alledged homophobia 18 months ago!