At 11:28 AM 12/07/2002 -0800, Steve Schear wrote:
At 10:56 AM 12/7/2002 -0800, Morlock Elloi wrote:
This, with obligatory cameras in cybercafes, is just plugging the
anonymity holes.
I haven't noticed any cameras in my neighborhood cafes.
Well of course you haven't seen them - that just shows how clever they are....
As far as I know, they're not required yet, at least in the US,
though there are countries that do try to require that cybercafes
register everybody who uses them, or restrict them to adults only,
either with the excuse that they might be used for pornography
or with some other excuse.
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...
