California City Issues Internet Cafe Moratorium

Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 23, 2002 @02:04AM from the pursuit-of-happiness-and-free-assembly dept.

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.

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Parenting by Proxy by RazzleFrog · 2002-01-23 02:09 · Score: 2, Redundant

Another great example of parenting by proxy. We can't control our kids so we'll let the government do it for us. To me, if these are violent kids to start out (which it sounds like) then we should be glad they are focusing their anger on video games and not out on the streets.

Hopefully after 45 days they will open up the cafes again with some proper supervision and this won't be another Indianpolis.