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Au Bon Pain Unblocking Gay Rights, Abortion Sites

An Au Bon Pain store displays pastries July 01, 2008 in New York City.
An Au Bon Pain store displays pastries July 01, 2008 in New York City. Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

After an embarrassing mishap, in which content controls on its in-store Wi-Fi blocked websites about gay rights, reproduction planning, and abortion, Au Bon Pain said on Wednesday that its Internet provider shouldn’t have blocked the sites, and that the sandwich chain was “now working closely with our Wi-Fi provider to establish the correct parameters for internet usage and make sure no issues of the sort arise in the future.”

Au Bon Pain Unblocks Gay Rights, Abortion Sites