Pokemon Go players unwelcome at Arlington, Holocaust museum

CNN ^ | 7/13/2016 | Sara Ashley O'Brien

[NotchJohnson]

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Arlington National Cemetery, both in Washington, DC area, have both issued appeals for players to avoid hunting Pokemon on their sites.

"Playing Pokemon Go in a memorial dedicated to the victims of Nazism is extremely inappropriate," said Andy Hollinger, director of communications at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., in a statement sent to CNNMoney.

"We are attempting to have the Museum removed from the game," the statement said.

Arlington, the burial ground for the nation's war dead, tweeted out a somber request: "We do not consider playing 'Pokemon Go' to be appropriate decorum on the grounds of ANC. We ask all visitors to refrain from such activity."

Pokemon Go has a link set up for people to report sensitive locations and contact on its website.

The game, which is played on smart phones, has become crazy popular since it was launched last Thursday. It superimposes virtual creatures in the real world using your camera and augmented reality. It has players exploring their real-life neighborhoods to capture Pokemon creatures.

[NotchJohnson]

This game has blown up like nobody's business. I see kids in my neighborhood wandering around with their phone trying to find virtual Pokemon or dragons. Even Moms are into it. There will be laws passed because of this app on phones.

[BlessedBeGod]

Great. Another thing to make people walk around looking at their phones instead of paying attention.

[Molon Labbie]

I have heard, unconfirmed of course, that some police department are telling people to stop trying to get access to Pokemon at police departments or they will find up in the Pokey for real.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Pokémon Go: East Saint Louis Edition !

Now your Special Snowflake can learn about the Black Experience !

[Mr Apple]

This pokemon game and all silly games should not be allowed in the Holocaust Memorial Museum or at Arlington National Cemetery (or any cemetery). It’s just not appropriate.

[headstamp 2]

The Saturday night Chicago edition!

[50sDad]

You know, if I were a foreign spy for China or Russia or...other places, I would invent a cell phone game that required people to take pictures of stuff to see an absolutely idiotic little game character, and then make the locations that they took pictures of accessible with hardly any security at all, because idiot cell phone owners and children have long since stopped looking at which “free” apps are harvesting all their personal information. OH, and I would include a LOT of locations that I could not normally get into without alarming people. Yeh, that would be brilliant. Because while certain people are enslaving the world and committing atrocities...fat, pampered Americans are playing stupid, supposedly innocent games with cell phones.

Seriously, I got an email from the place I work. You might say we are "contractors". In my defense. And our building was listed as a Poky target. So...yes. Clearly a way for the bad guys to use idiots playing a game for spyware.

But then again, Hillary endangered us and nothing happened to her.

[Mr Apple]

But then again, Hillary endangered us and nothing happened to her

That's o.k. Trump's AG will get hillary in Jan.

[tbw2]

Or SAY you are playing the game while showing up where you aren’t supposed to.

[tbw2]

If someone shows up to play this game in your venue, begin the educational lecture.
If players don’t like the lecture, they will get you off the Pokemon map through complaints faster than if you asked to be taken off.

[jmcenanly]

You’ve pretty much described Google Earth.

[Pollster1]

There is something seriously wrong with the people who need to be told this. Yesterday, I shooed some morons away from a local cemetery - there was a funeral in progress and they were headed straight for it. Kids need to learn respect for solemn occasions and locations, and too many of today’s parents are failing in that duty.

[Huck]

Very weird isn’t it? And it appears to have been instantaneous. Went from 0-1000 in 2 seconds. Very, very strange.

One theory is that OK, kids usually drive these kind of hype-trends. Nowadays, you have many 20-40 year olds who behave like children. Then you have the over-40s who think if they participate in the latest kid-craze, it makes them Peter Pan. So the pool of “kids” who drive these crazes is probably much larger than it used to be.

Also, I say people don’t use their phones because they seek the content. They seek the content so they have something to do with their phones. The phone stimulus-response is an addiction, and they need “things” to do to satisfy the craving.

[Salamander]

http://www.activistpost.com/2016/07/pokemon-go-is-the-surveillance-states-best-friend.html

[Salamander]

Some idiot has hidden a “Geocache” up on the local “phone company” property atop the mountain.

There are signs up there that warn of “lethal force” and I have personally seen the Creepy Black BDU Guys who come out of the shadows with rifles drawn.

The anticipation is killing me.

:D

[dfwgator]

Auschwitz Museum says no to “Pokemon Go”

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/auschwitz-museum-no-pokemon-go/

You mean they even have to request this? How can anyone even think that it would be accepted to play Pokemon Go at Auschwitz?