Is Pokemon Go 'a totalitarian system close to Nazism'? Ask the bishop - CNET

It seems he fears that the vast minds at Niantic Labs who created this summer phenomenon might be in the serpent's clutches.

The bishop has very definite ideas about what the game has done to society. It's "alienated thousands and thousands of young people," he's reportedly said.

He's also reportedly suggested that the game has tued people into the "walking dead."

Here's my favorite, though. AFP notes that the bishop has said Pokemon Go is "a totalitarian system close to Nazism."

You will be busy Googling to see who is the Hitler in all this. Niantic Labs didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. Nor did the diocese of Noto.

The bishop, though, isn't merely appealing to celestial minds. He reportedly claims he may take the matter to the courts.

Please put yourself in the position of the judge and jury in such a matter.

How might the bishop even attempt to prove that young people have been alienated -- at least alienated any more by Pokemon Go than they have been by gadgets in general?

Will he present experts in Nazism to draw similarities between monster hunting and, oh, must we go on?

Of course the bishop isn't alone in his quest to Pokemon Stop.

The French village of Bresolles has ordered Niantic to cease creating virtual inhabitants of its area. The mayor claims Niantic has no right to plant its monsters in Bresolles' environs.