Milwaukee declares that public Pokémon Go events cannot be held without permission and Niantic or Nintendo should be responsible for the costs derived from the event.

Controversy in Pokémon Go is already common. Controversial poke stops in inappropriate areas such as cemeteries, genocide monuments, among others. The appearance of Pokémon on Auswitch has also generated a lot of controversy, as it is considered offensive. South Korea has restricted areas for this app, China has directly blocked it across the country, and now Milwaukee has limited access to this app.

This town in the United States has developed legislation that requires the popular application and incidentally, to any other application that makes use of augmented reality, the requirement to request permission to use public locations for holding events. It makes a certain sense, the truth, since a meeting or an event in a certain area can concentrate hundreds or thousands of people and we already know that it can be quite messy, like the viral video that was seen a few days after the application came out , with hundreds of players stampeding into Central Park for a Vaporeon.

This law establishes a parallel between the Pokémon Go meetups with concerts or public events and that is why we would need a special permit. These events can generate dirt everywhere, collapsed public services, damage to green areas and furniture, and even some unexpected friction. All of this obviously generates costs, therefore the organizing company should bear the costs of the entire security and cleaning deployment or it would face a penalty.

It is not a casual measure, since Pokémon Go last summer caused many damages in some parks in Milwaukee and neither Nintendo nor Niantic were responsible and in the absence of precedent or legislation, everything came to nothing. The town is not willing to bear the costs of another horde of players destroying everything, so they have taken the measure of legislating to have a legal basis to sanction the company directly or indirectly responsible for any incident or damage.

Source: phandroid08