California Cybercafe Regulation Decision Released

The Importance of writes "The California Court of Appeals decided an important cybercafe regulation case last week. Read the decision [PDF]. The court decided that cybercafes are deserving of First Amendment protection. and that the zoning regulations used to regulate them in the City of Garden Grove were unconstitutional. However, in a terrible privacy decision, the court said video monitoring of the computers and patrons was a-ok. Read more on the decision here and here."

Comments

Re:Do the cafes *cause* crime?

[Joe U]

This is basically the same as phone companies stopping incoming calls on payphones in some areas, as they were being used by drug dealers to run business

And nothing to do with the fact that it was cutting into the phone companies profits.

Incoming calls were free.

Re:Do the cafes *cause* crime?

[EvilTwinSkippy]

A guy with a sidearm killing bad guys on the frontier of the old west was a hero. That same person in a more civilized environment is a Vigilante.

Don't give me that all or nothing crap. Don't give me that "Freedom Fighter" crap. This is the United States. If you don't have the balls to say something to my face, why should I have to put up with you leaving a post-it note on my windsheild, or calling my house in the middle of the night.

I challenge authority on a regular basis. I vote. I vote in primaries. I attend zoning meetings. I write to my congresscritters.

Our forefathers fought and died to give us what we have today. Is it perfect? Hell no. The Republic is a lousy form of government. But it's the best one we know.

In my experience, the people who are bitching about how totalitarian the government has become merely want to replace it with their own totalitarian regime.