> It is a customer relations issue that can be resolved by the free market.
How is that working out? I know the argument is that it's working out perfectly because the free market would curb the behavior if it weren't tolerable, but that can be said about literally every other issue that the free market supposedly "solves".
> If you go to a club on a Friday night, the music is so loud that your conversation with the person next to you is "jammed". Should that be banned?
Loud music is a feature of the club. It is considered an attraction by its patrons. For your analogy to validate, wi-fi jamming would have to be a feature of hotels. It's not.
You are simply wrong. Loud music is a feature to some. People who don't like noise don't go to clubs.
Jamming is also a feature. Perhaps not of hotels, but think about places where wi-fi jamming provides a benefit to people.
Have you ever gone into a cafe (to actually buy something) and found you can't sit anywhere because the place is full of people with laptops and other mobile devices? Some haven't even bought anything. Others treat one coffee as an excuse to occupy a table for three hours.
It's annoying. Yet, it's a free-market decision. The establishment has decided that it's in their best interest to let those people sit there. They should be able to jam them out of there, if they are so inclined.
They are there because the cafe likely offers free wifi. The cafe wouldn't have to jam wifi there to expel those types, they could just charge or turn off their wifi.
They could also be there even though the cafe doesn't offer free Wi-Fi. Maybe they are getting it from next door. Or maybe they are getting it from a wide-spread commercial Wi-Fi service that they pay for, which has hotspots all around town. Maybe they are on a mobile network.
In other words maybe they are just there for the comfortable seating, and the relaxing smell of vanilla and cinammon, while you, a paying customer, have to have your order "to go" for lack of seating.
If the shop jammed those parasites the heck out of there, I'd consider that an attractive feature of the shop.
How is that working out? I know the argument is that it's working out perfectly because the free market would curb the behavior if it weren't tolerable, but that can be said about literally every other issue that the free market supposedly "solves".
> If you go to a club on a Friday night, the music is so loud that your conversation with the person next to you is "jammed". Should that be banned?
Loud music is a feature of the club. It is considered an attraction by its patrons. For your analogy to validate, wi-fi jamming would have to be a feature of hotels. It's not.