Opravy

ENGLISH ESSAY

• First, On a serious tone, the journalist describes a situation which has become more and more prevalent these last years in public places: people who watch pornography in full wiew of passers by.

• According to the article, it seems that this phenomenom increased these last years thanks to free Wifi access that offers many public places, including cafes or restauraant and more genrally, the rise of mobile devices.

• To illustrate this , the journalist highlights the case of men caught red handed watching sexual contents at Macdonalds.

• Then, this situation gives rise to somes conflits and devides the public opinion, as some people want different actors, as restaurant directors or airlines companies, to react while others think it’s part individual freedom of each to watch pornography wherever they want, and if people disagree, they better “look away”, to quote the journalist words. what make the situation even more tricky is that not everyone agree on what is considered inappropriate.

• For instance, a former justice department official think violent scene in historical movies can learn some lessons in order no to repeat yesterday’s mistakes.

• Finally, as the article goes on, some actions are described to face the issue of pornography in public places.

• A mouvement called Morality in Media, tried to raise airplanes companies awareness through some campaigns.

• They responded by saying that aircraft’s staffs are trying to react depending the situation.

• Same for Starbucks, who confirm their employees can ask people to stop watching inappropriate contents in their restaurants.

• Yet, this issue is also playing out at individual scale.

• A lawer interviewed said he’s trying to hide from people’s eyes, sexual or violents content when it occurs on the shows he daily watches while going to the gym.