crackdown

No, that kind of dictatorial crackdown didn't have anything to do with their economic success.

The Hacker Crackdown by acclaimed sci fi author Bruce Sterling is a great work on an infamous cross-country bust of many hackers.

Now in practice this ends up requiring a fairly draconian crackdown on communications that may well not solve the problem of running gangs anyway.

I think right when Second Life started to decline, they also had a massive crackdown on gambling in the virtual world.

Are there severe government crackdown on coops or something?

The Party's internal crackdown on corruption is apparently pretty comical according to mainland Chinese of mine as everyone there knows that pretty much everyone in power is hopelessly corrupt.

Since investors with this kind of money have done their due diligence, my guess is that they just want to ride the revenue train until the inevitable state-by-state crackdown occurs.

This was not a good idea, but pivoting into the illegal hotel business where the properties are continually rented was a good idea - at least until there is a major crackdown.

Cynical: civic unrest, police crackdown, rinse, repeat, spiral out of control.

"The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier" (Bruce Sterling) I wouldn't call this a really good book, but it's interesting to have read it if you didn't yet have anything to do with computers in the early 1990s.

I had no internet then, so I just read the Mondo 2000 book again and again, along with the Hacker Crackdown, and Howard Rhinegold's book on VR.