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When a struggling café owner bans laptops, strollers, and “too casual” clothing to create an ‘authentic conversation space’—forcing remote workers, young parents, and students into the street—does he become a courageous defender of real human connection and dying local culture, or an elitist gatekeeper weaponizing nostalgia to police who deserves a seat, a coffee, and a place in the city?

The handwritten sign appeared on a rainy Tuesday, taped slightly crooked on the café’s fogged-up window: “No laptops. No strollers.

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