Afghanistan Closes Videogame Stores

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to the UK Guardian's report that authorities in Afghanistan have closed hundreds of shops where children played video games. Authorities claimed they were "reacting to complaints from parents that their children spent time and money in the shops instead of going to their schools", and also cited alleged gambling and alcohol drinking in the stores as "corrupting the morals" of young people. The story links this move to increasingly conservative elements in Afghanistan's post-Taliban government, mentioning that cable television was also recently banned by an Afghan supreme court judge.

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As far as I know, Katz hasn't returned, and I doubt that he'll be back.

He was here writing about geeks because he wanted to find a sycophantic audience that would eat up every word he wrote and buy his books. Instead he found a very harsh climate, and was ridiculed for his transparent coat-tailing with every article he wrote.

So now, he's writing about dogs, having found an audience that enjoys his sort of writing, and are much much less critical of him.

Funny, Katz writing about dogs.