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An unexpected catch:
In an informal investigation by Senators Jeffrey D. Klein and Diane J. Savino, staff members took a list of 100 registered sex offenders across New York City and compared it with locations where Pokémon Go players could collect virtual items or use other game features.
In 59 cases, those locations were within half a block of offenders' homes. The staff members, who played the game for two weeks, also found 57 Pokémon — which appear on players' phones as if they exist in the real world — near the offenders' homes, according to a report the senators released on Friday. Such overlap has been reported in other states, including California and North Carolina.
In New York, those discoveries prompted Mr. Klein, a Democrat who represents parts of the Bronx and Westchester County, and Ms. Savino, a Staten Island Democrat, to propose two pieces of legislation, scheduled to be introduced next week.
The first would prevent moderate or high-risk sex offenders from playing so-called augmented-reality games — like Pokémon Go — and the second would require the games' creators to cross-reference their virtual landscapes with lists of offenders' homes and remove any "in-game objective" within 100 feet of them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 01 2016, @05:55AM
Execution by the state violates self-sovereignty - my life is my own, the state does not own it and thus does not have the right to end it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 01 2016, @06:31AM
Didn't the Civil War teach you anything about how the Union treats sovereignity? Or y'know debtors prison and lots of other rank shit America did before, during, and after the Civil War both at home and abroad.
Self-Sovereignity is like national sovereignity. It is only exists when the other guy is too scared to skirmish with you, or you are hard enough to take his for yourself.
Really if you look at it objectively, the average criminal is the epitome of self-sovereignity (if compared on equal terms to actual nations, which are often quite sociopathic in nature.) Take what you want, defend your holdings, and if someone stands against you, put them down.
^ Above is an example of why self-sovereignity doesn't work in 'sovereign society'. Furthermore following this train of thought, sovoreignity allows you to deprive others of their rights if they cannot defend themselves (unless a large body of sovereign entities codify a set of rules that they can selectively enforce on either themselves or everyone weaker.), and other's sovereignity can be taken away if you are strong enough.
Food for thought.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 01 2016, @09:36AM
I believe that is the prime driver behind this rush for gun-ownership these days.
You may not take 'em all down, but you will likely get one or two people that think they are gonna take your stuff.
Knowing there are a lot more like you than there are of them.
Like Flight 93.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday August 01 2016, @10:20AM
If/when you violate a lot of other people's self sovereignty, then you forfeit your own. Rape, murder and pillage to your heart's content, until the state invokes "self defense" in the name of all of it's citizens.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Monday August 01 2016, @06:58PM
Other people have claimed that your idea of a sex offender doesn't match the people they put on the list. I've certainly heard of cases where that isn't true, but I don't know how frequent that is. Still, an 18 year old who dates a 17 year old would not, for that, be considered a sex offender in any reasonable society. And that doesn't count as violating anyone else's self-sovereignty.
You might consider that inflammatory labels are often put on people which have little relation to what the people actually are. And this may be often done by those with authority just as an exercise of authority, to make them feel important. (There may be other reasons, but sometimes I can't imagine any that aren't even more despicable.)
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 01 2016, @10:49AM
my life is my own, the state does not own it and thus does not have the right to end it.
Yeah, that's what she said! So I guess we will just leave it up to the people you have wronged to end your miserable existence! What's that? You would prefer a fair trial by a jury of your peers, AND a prohibition on cruel and unusual and Runaway1956 approved punishments? Well, that sounds like something that we would need a state to organize and enforce, as opposed to the lynch mob.