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Holocaust Museum to visitors: Please stop catching Pokemon here

• dogma1138 10y ago
  I'm surprised that Nintendo did not blacklist certain locations from the game, should've been quite trivial to do so. I wonder how long it would take for some one to die because an augmented reality Pokemon spawned in a silly location. Train tracks, highway, munition ranges, military bases, etc. are pretty easy to blacklist, and in this case simple common sense places like churches, temples, mosques, hospitals, and memorials.
  • kbenson 10y ago
    I could actually see how maintaining a blacklist could actually lead them to legal problems. With any such blacklist, there will be omissions, and if Nintendo (or Niantic) establish that they are responsible for excluding unsafe areas but fail to do so, they will get sued by someone. If they establish that it is the player's responsibility to not put themselves in physical danger while playing (a sensible request, IMO), then they still might get sued, but at least they haven't assumed a responsibility to do with protecting their users, and it is easier to defend (IMO).
  • gtf21 10y ago
    Perhaps people could also use their brains and judgement to decide which locations might be inappropriate. I don't really think it's necessarily Nintendo's duty to have to nanny their users into being normal, functioning human beings.