The FTC is now seeking public feedback on the ESRB’s proposal.
The world is really conspiring to give me back my life, huh? Writers and actors guild strikes, video games being locked behind face scanners, websites being locked behind DRM in the browser, and big social media time sinks imploding because speculative venture capital groups stopped drowning them in money. If they’re not careful, I might actually go outisde and touch grass. Or get a hobby. Maybe even talk to another person face to face.
Maybe even talk to another person face to face.
There there. Let’s not overdo it now.
Disturbing, and I hate it. No thanks!
Not ok with anything that normalizes giving companies access to my camera feed for basic actions. No matter how well intentioned.
At this rate piracy will be the superior option within next few years.
These clowns really think that they can use IP and patent laws to beat people into submission on 100% discretionary entertainment… Cute.
ESRB should be checking for government issues ID on all the games with gambling. That shit has ruined online gaming.
Ok now this is sad, but it made me burst out laughing. This is an org that allows actual gambling with actual money on actual gambling machines in a sports game rated 3+, while having a cards minigame makes a game 17+ otherwise. These guys want to make sure a person is old enough to… Do what, exactly? It’s titties, isn’t it? They always only go after the titties.
A lot of people just can’t cope with the completely normal interest in sex that starts at puberty, and they want to bend the world backwards to pretend that this is a switch that flips on people’s heads exactly at 18. I get that it’s a complicated matter to handle, but it’s also a fact of life.
There are right and wrong ways to protect kids and teens, but banning tits is just a display to appease parents who don’t really want to think about it. If they did care about their well-being they’d focus on being more watchful towards creeps in online platforms rather than policing raunchy fictional content and convincing themselves teens aren’t figuring out how to get it anyway, as they always have.
Meanwhile gambling for children makes a lot of money, so why would they care about the psychological issues that it causes on developing brains.
