{"id":100766,"date":"2016-08-10T15:00:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=100766"},"modified":"2016-08-10T15:01:35","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T13:01:35","slug":"the-first-country-to-ban-pokemon-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/nintendo\/100766-the-first-country-to-ban-pokemon-go","title":{"rendered":"The first country to ban Pokemon GO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iran has become the first country to officially ban Pokemon GO, reports the BBC<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The decision was was taken by the High Council of Virtual Spaces, the official body overseeing online activity, which cited\u00a0unspecified security concerns as the cause of the ban.<\/p>\n

Despite restrictions on internet usage, Iranians on social media have discussed playing Pokemon Go in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

Reports last month said Iranian authorities were waiting to see to what extent the game’s creators would co-operate with them before making a decision on banning it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

These are not the only reports of bans, with registered sex offenders in the USA being blocked from playing the game, along with\u00a0on-duty police officers in Indonesia.<\/p>\n

A leading Saudi cleric has also declared that a previous fatwa (religious ruling) held against previous Pokemon games was also enforceable here.<\/p>\n

The 16-year-old edict said the game contained “forbidden images” and violated an Islamic ban on gambling.<\/p>\n

But a fatwa’s influence might not carry beyond that particular scholar’s territory, and is not necessarily applicable to the whole country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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This is the first country to ban Pokemon GO and why they did it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":98450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226,6],"tags":[171,20460,19069,20314],"class_list":["post-100766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","category-nintendo","tag-ban","tag-country","tag-first","tag-pokemon-go"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100838,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100766\/revisions\/100838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}