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frojack [soylentnews.org] writes:

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 Soylentals 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 wandererd into a city park.

https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/06/10/1952248 [soylentnews.org]

Well it didn't take long for that to be slapped down by the courts.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/07/judge-blocks-law-regulating-where-augmented-reality-games-can-be-played/ [arstechnica.com]

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.

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