California City Issues Internet Cafe Moratorium

DarkZero writes: "The Sacramento Bee is reporting that the City Council of Garden Grove, California has issued a 45 day moratium on internet cafes following a fatal stabbing and several other crimes, with the justification that internet cafes are "improperly supervised environments" that very large groups of minors frequent daily (mostly to play games), and that a lot of gang violence has cropped up because of this. Another new restriction is that minors may not stay in any internet cafe past 8PM on a school night, though it isn't clear whether or not that restriction will be lifted after the 45 day period." The New York Times has a similarly breathless story, emphasizing the violence of games played at such cafes.

Comments

Re:Is that even legal?

[3am]

IANAL, but I don't think people in the US have any real rights until they turn 18.

Wow, that was the most immature and ignorant comment I've seen on slashdot in a long time.

I have an idea, why don't you talk to someone in the 'untouchable' caste in India, a woman in Saudi Arabia, or a political dissident in China about how you don't have any 'real rights'? Grow up...

Re:The US and Human Rights (or lack thereof)

[osgeek]

US minors are not responsible, but they can be sentenced to death. Almost no other country in the world does that. Way to go, USA!


Children who kill people in cold blood without cause are barely more than animals, and history has shown us that they're basically incorrigible. They'll continue to exhibit violent behavior for the rest of their lives.

Put them down like mad dogs, I say.

"But by doing that, we're decreasing the value of human life in our society," I often hear in response to my attitude.

Wrong, by not removing the hopelessly poisonous elements from our society, we devalue the lives of their innocent victims. Let's get to the point where in airtight cases we just kill the murders without the years of legal wrangling. Put the money that we save prosecuting or keeping them housed into education programs to prevent our production of more murderers.