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Remember all the handwringing over the fact that games like Pokemon go brought people into their own parks? We covered it just a few weeks ago. Seems a lot of Soylentils were very much in favor of requirements for demanding pre-approval and fees from any company that may someday make any future profit from any citizen who wandered into a city park.
Trial Will Decide Whether Milwaukee Can Require Permits for Using Locations in Augmented Reality
Well it didn't take long for that to be slapped down by the courts.
A judge on Thursday declared as unconstitutional a local Wisconsin ordinance mandating that the makers of augmented reality games get special use permits if their mobile apps were to be played in county parks. The law—the nation's first of its kind—was challenged on First Amendment grounds amid concerns it amounted to a prior restraint of a game maker's speech. What's more, the law was seemingly impossible to comply with.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday July 21 2017, @11:19PM (2 children)
"Looking at it right" is really terrible criteria. Anything can be "looked at right". Anything. It's all the fault of the Moon Nazis and their monopoly on green cheese, 100% totally, if you look at it right.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday July 21 2017, @11:30PM (1 child)
Pardon me for trying to set a high expectations bar for our democratic representatives
(grin, as he says)
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday July 21 2017, @11:44PM