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European lawmakers will study a ban on 'loot boxes' and addictive features in video games (www.euractiv.com)
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[–] verdi@feddit.org 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Study? What more study is needed, gambling is virtual heroin for kids. Just fucking kill it. Everyone and their mother is OK with causing millions in unployment due to "AI" because it's "progress" but to actually protect children we need to "study" even more! GTFO with that bullshit.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's only a theory I came up with just now but EU was criticized for years for regulating too much. Stories about absurd regulations like classifying snails as fish or regulating the curvature of a banana were circulating everywhere. It was probably organized by corporations to slow down EU and now the process is so slow it's verging on being useless. They are thinking about banning sales of oversized US cars but maybe starting in 2035. I will be dead long before those cars are off the roads (hopefully not killed by one of them). Everything requires studies and drafts and transition periods and little gets done.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

It was probably organized by corporations to slow down EU

Cries in red white and blue American tears

The owner class, their paid shills, and their useful idiots had half the population convinced decades ago that all regulation is bad and that government entities literally cannot do anything correctly.

I started believing some of that stuff when I was young and thought that people in the media argued in good faith. Plus I was more accepting of the cornerstone conservative axiom that money and "progress" are the marks of good people and good societies rather than silly nebulous concepts like "being alive is a positive experience for as many people as possible."