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anyone find this a bit funny?

   "...and can never offer tech support again."

I've never heard of a non licensed profession being barred from "practicing"

  Brar Mom: Hey Brar, can you help me setup my new iPhone.
  Brar: Not under my parole conditions..

Does that mean that an illegal street food vendor can be barred from cooking, ever? hehe

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> I've never heard of a non licensed profession being barred from "practicing"

Kevin Mitnick.

From the Wikipedia article about him:

> He was released on January 21, 2000. During his supervised release, which ended on January 21, 2003, he was initially forbidden to use any communications technology other than a landline telephone. Mitnick fought this decision in court, eventually winning a ruling in his favor, allowing him to access the Internet. Under the plea deal, Mitnick was also prohibited from profiting from films or books based on his criminal activity for seven years, under a special judicial Son of Sam law variation.

> In December 2002, an FCC Judge ruled that Mitnick was sufficiently rehabilitated to possess a federally issued amateur radio license. Mitnick now runs Mitnick Security Consulting LLC, a computer security consultancy and is part owner of KnowBe4, provider of an integrated platform for security awareness training and simulated phishing testing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mitnick

> Does that mean that an illegal street food vendor can be barred from cooking, ever? hehe

Someone in the UK was given an Anti-Social Behaviour Order for being too loud when they had sex, so in some jurisdictions probably yes.

I had to Google it:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2858802/Woman-nois...

That's the rag Daily Mail so take it with a grain of salt. They may have made it up.

While true, they were far from the only reporter of this case: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wear/8413974.stm

I imagine the barrier is on offering the service for payment

Although I guess the sort of person that provides this expensive "service" to confused elderly people might be the sort of person that would charge their own mother for setting up their iPhone anyway.

AFAIU, he is only banned in a commercial sense. He can still help his family solve their IT problems, and that street food vendor could still cook dinner for his family

> Does that mean that an illegal street food vendor can be barred from cooking, ever? hehe

I think a court can make arbitrary sentences. It's powers aren't really limited by the rest of the system. Doesn't matter that licenses don't exist for the thing it's trying to stop.

Doctors can be barred from practicing medicine. CEOs can be be barred from running a company.

You need a license to practice medicine so that's not a good answer to the original post

True. I overlooked the word "non" in " I've never heard of a non licensed profession being barred from "practicing"".

But there have been cases of people not allowed to use computers and whatever. I think the judges have pretty broad discretion in some cases.

CEO and Directors can be and you don't have to be licenced to be one.

Like E. Holmes for the next ten years.

Barred only from being a CEO of public companies :|

After Dade Murphy crashed the stock market in 1988, part of his sentencing included being barred from using a touch-tone phone for seven years.

Dade Murphy, the fictional character?

Seems like it

Yes, yes... sigh.

Well, it wasn't a problem for him. He was still a super hacker on his 18th birthday when he was allowed to touch it again.

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