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Re: FBI:paying cash cup of cofee: 147;Potential terrorist activi said by jvmorris:said by dave:. . . if its primary business isn't to charge people to use its (not their own) computers for net access, it's not an internet cafe, and therefore is not one of the places for which that FBI pamphlet was written. Starbucks is not an internet cafe. The bookstore is not an internet cafe. Etc.
And again, I maintain that, if it really was the intent of the FBI to so narrowly target the audience for this flyer, they screwed up. I have to also wonder how they decided which establishments would qualify as "internet cafes" for flyer distribution. If they used either traditional paper or on-line yellow pages, such places as Starbucks, Panera Bread, and Bean Central are prominently listed (paid advertisements) in the "internet cafe" business category (at least in this area). Of those three businesses, all are primarily more or less traditional coffee shops, with only Bean Central actually offering on-line computer terminals and gaming consoles in some of their stores.
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 jvmorrisI Am The Man Who Was Not There.Premium,MVM
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Reston, VA | said by NetFixer:. . .
I have to also wonder how they decided which establishments would qualify as "internet cafes" for flyer distribution. . . .
I don't think the FBI did!
I suspect that the FBI simply created the original flyers and then sent them out (probably as PDF files) to local and state law enforcement agencies that they thought could use them. (There's a long list in the SLATT/SAR program documentation of LEAs participating from the beginning.)
It was then likely left as an 'exercise for the recipient' to decide to which businesses within their area of authority they would distribute the appropriate flyers. The local/state LEAs could also modify the flyers as they saw fit, also (and apparently quite a few did). Having neatly disposed of the distribution effort (from their perspective), the FBI then sat back and waited for the tips to start rolling in.
Now, the local LEAs probably thought that the original flyers, when received, were great stuff -- and then they started working on how to identify what businesses to contact. I suspect that many of them quickly found this was a time-intensive labor-consuming activity and then simply decided to post them on their publicly accessible websites.
End of story.
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jvmorrisI Am The Man Who Was Not There.Premium,MVM
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Reston, VA | Why, yes, I suppose it does. 
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