Not the same, but in a similar vein, I found it unpleasantly weird when I was spending a few days in a nice neighbourhood in the US, only to notice, one evening that there were signs up saying there was a curfew each night in the common land. I presume this was to discourage teenagers boozing in the woods and disturbing people at night, but to institute a total curfew felt quite sinister (totalitarian / Big Brother) to me, as someone who merely wanted to harmlessly get out of the house for some fresh air and sit somewhere quietly alone, to meditate. What more fundamental right does a human being have than to quietly sit in nature??