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...What They're Restricting in South Korea: In an attempt to crack down on video-game addiction, South Korea is setting a curfew for online play. Underage players will have to abide by an automated blackout period after midnight and become accustomed to slower connection speeds after long periods of use during earlier hours. While currently limited to a handful of games, the "slowdown" plan will eventually apply to the 19 role-playing titles that comprise 79% of the nation's online-gaming market. A recent survey of 1,500 South Korean public-school students found that 29.3% of them...
Jonathan M.L. Rosenthal ’13, SJSF’s statewide communications coordinator, said that the organizers wanted to keep this sleep-out “completely legal,” unlike their previous events held last semester on Boston Common, which has a strict curfew. Rosenthal said that when the organizers realized that Cambridge Common also has a curfew they asked the City Council to grant an exemption...
...District Attorney’s office has stressed that the deal to not charge SJSF members will not hold if they break Boston Common’s 11 p.m. curfew again, according to Jeffrey M. Feuer, who is coordinating the pro bono legal support for the group through the National Lawyers Guild...
...Others said they would stay at home for safety. Honduras is far calmer than in first weeks following the coup, when soldiers and police fought pitched battles with protesters and a curfew locked down the country at night. The pro-Zelaya marches of tens of thousands have dissipated, leaving only a few hundred die-hard supporters chanting in the central plaza. But many people are wary that with the election, violence will flare again. And a steady stream of bombs, while causing no deaths, have been found outside government buildings, on buses and even in the walls of school houses...
...impact of living under constant stress, worrying about whether family members will be stopped by security forces. For a visitor to Kashmir, the number of checkpoints and bunkers, all manned by soldiers carrying AK-47s and sometimes just feet apart, is hard to ignore. But more unsettling are the curfews, called during major protests, elections or any time authorities see fit. They are unpredictable, and breaking curfew can mean arrest. So Srinagar tends to empty out after dark; some shopkeepers who used to keep late hours have simply given up, pulling down shutters before...