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from the how-about-being-aware-of-your-surroundings-instead? dept.
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: 3, Interesting) by bzipitidoo on Monday August 01 2016, @02:28PM
It's election season. This sort of political activity, cracking down on sexual issues to pander to the social conservatives, always heats up before an election. They bust prostitutes and johns, harass topless bars and stores that sell porn and sex paraphernalia, and try harder to close abortion clinics. They will overstep the rules to do it too. A few clerks end up in jail for a few hours, which of course disrupts store sales. Usually they haven't done anything illegal and shouldn't have been arrested, and the government will hastily drop the charges in hopes of avoiding a lawsuit.
Watch and you'll see, the politicians will settle down after the election. Would be nice if we didn't have to put up with this nonsense, but that would require curing social conservatives of their mental issues, particularly their insecurities.