Iran Bans Pokemon Go Over 'Security Concerns' (usatoday.com) 71
An anonymous reader writes: Iran has become the first country to ban Pokemon Go, the mobile game where users (aka Pokemon trainers) roam the physical world in search for digital creatures known as Pokemon. The country cites security concerns for the reason behind the ban. "Any game that wants to operate nationwide in Iran needs to obtain permission from the ministry of culture and Islamic guidance, and the Pokemon Go app has not yet requested such a permission," Abolhasan Firouzabadi, the head of Iran's supreme council of virtual space, told the Isna news agency. The Guardian reports that Iranian officials feel that the game can create problems for the country and its people. Iranian authorities use smart filtering software, a system that affects connectivity speeds and in many cases has replaced more traditional mechanisms for blocking internet services, the Guardian reported.
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Iran has become the first country to ban Pokemon Go
Didn't Saudi Arabia ban it over a week ago?
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whistles and walks past the mosque again....
GPS Spoof (Score:1)
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The Arabs are a hospitable people, they just fake it so the US soldiers feel like home.
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I don't think Turks are Arabs either...
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So, this and the Plan9 post got modded down, but not the bolded post full of bigotry up at the top of the page. It's a shame that the moderators apparently are bigots.
FFS, the mods are the users. The lowest a thing can be is -1, which it it. It's up top because it was posted before what is below it. This isn't reddit with up and down shit and namby pambies unable to ignore obvious trolling. Comments don't get deleted, the get modded by the users. If you can't hack being exposed to it and putting it aside as the obvious troll shit it is then maybe you'd be happier on safespace.com discussing my little pony with your interlectual peers. As long as the discussion doesn't ge
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So ... Team Rocket finally gets a chance?
israeli army identifies a new threat: 'pokemon go' (Score:4, Insightful)
meanwhile
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/isr... [yahoo.com]
Smart (Score:3, Interesting)
How long will it be before someone sets up a PokeStop or Pokemon gym or whatever it is that causes people to congregate at a location and plants a bomb there? Or just messes with people by planting a rare Pokemon inside some sacred temple like the Kaaba?
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Most of the locations are actually user-generated. Niantic imported their POI database from Ingress to populate the map in Pokemon Go.
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It's a matter of magnitude. Imagine a Pokestop in a Starbucks.
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A Pokestop is active onece every five minutes at most Hardly going to cause massive crowds to gather.
As far as I can tell, there are seven or eight Pokestops in my neighborhood (depending on how you count "in my neighborhood - the library is across the street at the outer corner), and I've never seen people gathering at any of them that wouldn't be there if there wasn't a Pokestop....
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Or that bait stuff. Whatever they do to make those things appear where they want them to.
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someone sets up a starbucks
One would be a problem. But there are so many Starbucks that the population density of customers is fairly well distributed.
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How long will it be before someone sets up a PokeStop or Pokemon gym or whatever it is that causes people to congregate at a location and plants a bomb there? Or just messes with people by planting a rare Pokemon inside some sacred temple like the Kaaba?
Oh thats right, we should all go back indoors and forget that there is a real world out there. Its terrible that we have become so insulated and fearful of what could potentially happen that the first sign that we feel we can emerge from our darkened basements to see the outside (however augmented it may be) that someone screams chicken and wants us all back inside where its "safe". This is what the terrorists want. In fact this is what most governments want. They want and need a fearful populace so the lea
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The Muslims were just fine altering the Kaaba in the first Place.
At-least it would be more real, more purposeful, more peaceful and allow more people to join in.
The problem for the Iranian religitards is of course that people may find out how fun life may be when you're not a brainwashed monotheist who spend your whole life with one thing where that thing is a complete obsession with what to do when you're not living any longer.
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Yep, the polytheists got it going on!
Life may not revolve about how everything you may enjoy in life is a sin and how you should dedicate your life to being dead then at-least.
Sad to ruin life.
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More likely it will be the Sunnis, through their Daesh militant arm.
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You're rambling a lot.
Good Spy technique (Score:3, Funny)
Put all the Pokemon in that highly secure Atomic Bomb I mean er uhm Peaceful Uranium enrichment plant. Free Spying for everyone.
Define irony (Score:4)
A theocracy banning a pasttime that sees you out seeking for beings that aren't really there.
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It's a monotheistic religion. Meaning, they insist in having the monopoly on imaginary friends.
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Yeah, I thought it was banned because of the reference to evolution, or maybe that was Saudi Arabia.
First country? (Score:4, Informative)
Someone forgot Saudi Arabia [slashdot.org]. Iran is only the first to do it over security concerns.
The crazy part is (Score:1)
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Now all I see are people staring at phones.
Well, look at the bright side. You can take women back to your hotel room while their boyfriends look for imaginary animals.
by all means... (Score:1)
via UN [reuters.com]
other venues [netmundial.br]