http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=341907

A Melbourne café owner is so sick of hearing about Facebook he has banned his patrons from talking about the popular social networking website.

There will be a story on it on channel 9 in a couple minutes

wow, that's news.

awesome advertising / news

oh and what about the dog stuck on the cliff. THATS HUGE NEWS.

Yeah it's news, since when do restaurant owners govern the topic of conversation? Since now I guess.

f*** eating at his s***ty cafe

edit: lolz reload!!!

last edited by Spook at 19:38:35 03/Jan/08

spook will definitely be boycotting this cafe

EDIT: hahahaa the man himself beat me to it

Go the dog on the cliff

I hope it does better than the dog in Hugh's car

The dog got rescued!

Reminds of that Club owner in Syd who banned the Melbourne Shuffle at his nightspots. Said that drunk people were trying to imitate the 'buzzed' rave dancers and in turn hurting themselves. Here's an idea...instead of banning a particular dance at a dance venue, how about banning the selling of alcohol to drunk patrons?

the dog was later put down for talking about facebook

this cafe is setting an excellent example

his funeral...

it's probably for the best

I watched the story on channel 9, the restaurant was this wog who looked a bit like Trog, a wog Trog, I'm not surprised...

Reminds of that Club owner in Syd who banned the Melbourne Shuffle at his nightspots. Said that drunk people were trying to imitate the 'buzzed' rave dancers and in turn hurting themselves. Here's an idea...instead of banning a particular dance at a dance venue, how about banning the selling of alcohol to drunk patrons?

Dont they have the responsible service of alcohol in NSW?? In WA when I worked in a bar & anyone was too drunk I could tell em no more & hand them water until they had sobered up a bit. Lol. Its quite funny watching the expression on their face when you refuse them alcohol.....

RSA is in every state.

In Queensland it is compulsory to have a current RSA certificate if you serve any form of alcohol at any tyoe of venue. (excluding BYO restaurants)

the dog was later put down for talking about facebook

HAHA

This is like cafes that ban mobiles. If I dont need a phone, you dont need to be paid for the breakfast I just ate.

ahhh another reason to love byo restraunts..

Should organise a group of Facebook junkies with laptops to swarm the restaurant.

Should organise a group of Facebook junkies with laptops to swarm the restaurant.

Haha how funny would that be. Have a story on the news how the restaurant was swarmed by facebook users.... lol...

Does that mean they are descriminating facebook users?? So my space is ok but face book is not. Same kinda thing isnt it???

I think you will find Facebook users have less acne and/or balls have dropped

Saw this on Extra or something while I was on holidays, the owner seems like a total jerk.

Even tried doing the soup nazi thing near the end.

What's the big deal? He owns the place, he can decide who eats there. What a pointless story.

What a tosser, just another case of people trying to cram their way of life down peoples throats. Why open up a business like that if you don't want people talking, it's almost like a pub that banned footy talk.

Less token mirror shots on facebook :)

Why open up a business like that if you don't want people talking, it's almost like a pub that banned footy talk.

Are you mad? I'm sure there's lots of people that would go to places like that specifically because of those sorts of policies.

Fact: people like different things. The more establishments that cater to different tastes, the better.

If you want to be able to talk about Facebook, you can go to any of the other 34,031,105 cafes in the same suburb that are social networking-agnostic.

Does he clearly advertise that his shop is a no-Facebook zone though?

Fact: people like different things. The more establishments that cater to different tastes, the better.

It is called freedom of speech, I know some people don't like it but hey I have this crazy belief people can say whatever they want whenever they want. Don't like the public then don't run a business that it is open to them. If you care about whatever people are talking about around you I think you need to get over yourself and not be so precious.

Yea, does seem like a ridiculous idea.

I hope a plague of locusts descends on his cafe.

It is called freedom of speech, I know some people don't like it but hey I have this crazy belief people can say whatever they want whenever they want. Don't like the public then don't run a business that it is open to them.

private establishments can do what they want can't they? in this case it's pretty clear that the cafe is not open to the general public, it's only open to those who won't talk/use facebook.

It is called freedom of speech

...and it's part of America's constitution (but you won't find it in Australia's)...

and even in America it doesn't apply to private property, broadcasting, or within a certain distance of certain government buildings...

So can a cafe ban black people?

controlling what people say in your local = controlling what race of people are allowed to enter

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ok

then

gg

Are you mad? I'm sure there's lots of people that would go to places like that specifically because of those sorts of policies.

Fact: people like different things. The more establishments that cater to different tastes, the better.

If you want to be able to talk about Facebook, you can go to any of the other 34,031,105 cafes in the same suburb that are social networking-agnostic.

Bahahaha what? What the f*** are you doing listening to other people's conversations anyways? Why would you pick a cafe just because of what teh other patrons talk about? IMO, this is like the Regatta starting up down the street from the RE. RE - the cafe where you can talk about whatever you want, whenever you want, Regatta, the "classy" pub where you can talk about whatever you want, as long as it's not Facebook.

DYSWIDT?

IMO, this is like the Regatta starting up down the street from the RE.

Sorry - not "starting up"...

I laughed after a Manager fired (figurative straw on the camels back so to speak) someone who challenged them about blocking facebook/myspace etc despite being told many times they were there to work, not surf the web.....

Wish I had time to surf the web while I wsa working :(