> There was an article in the press a month or so ago about some > town that was trying hard to restrict cybercafe hours, > because of gang activity there - I'm not sure how much of it's > just the same nonsense that tried to restrict video-game parlors, > and how much of it's because the local bullies were playing quake > and decided to gang up and frag the mayor's kid...
Bill, You're referring to Garden Grove in Orange County (SoCal). This is a Vietnamese neighborhood, and meatspace gang violence intruded into the cybercafes --which are really networked-gaming parlours BTW-- and some kid got whacked outside. In the meatwhacking sense. The various reactive laws this violence generated are not CP-list-related per se, but are indicators of how more general-purpose cybercafes might be regulated. --- Tim: re "Siliness, compounded": I wasn't agreeing that such laws (cams in 'cafes) exist now in the US, but rather that 'cafe anonymity *will be* readily blocked by laws requiring your drivers license (or library card) to use the machines. All of this in addition to the power to subpeona all the private videos in the neighborhood. To implement, all it requires is a smoking crater somewhere, and the claim that the Feebs are stymied at a 'cafe ingress point. --- Got Reichstag?
