Northern Rail has issued an appeal to customers to avoid watching 'Not Safe For Work' (NSFW) content on trains.
Content considered ‘NSFW’ can range in scale from inappropriate jokes and bad language to offensive topics and explicit material. For many people, their commute or downtime on a train is chance to catch-up on online content from the day, but Northern has urged people to avoid any content they wouldn't feel comfortable looking at while at work on the train or the platform.
It has reminded customers that the internet that you can access in stations or on trains is delivered in partnership with 'Friendly-WiFi', which is a government-initiated safe certification standard for public WiFi. This means the WiFi will automatically filter out content which is inappropriate, particularly in areas likely to have children present like trains.
