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Are WiFi Network Names Protected by the First Amendment?

posted onApril 22, 2018
by l33tdawg

Michigan police were called at a Planet Fitness gym earlier this month to investigate a bomb threat that ended up being only a prank after a naughty user named his WiFi network "Remote Detonator."

The gym patron spotted the suspicious WiFi network name and called the police, following the gym's normal procedures. The gym re-opened the same day, three hours later, after bomb-sniffing dogs swept the building without finding any explosive devices.

"Everything is perfectly legal from a police standpoint," Saginaw Township Police Chief Donald Pussehl told a local paper.

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