sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Entirely seriously:
While this is far from some kind of total victory, that a conversation is happening at all is much better than that not being the case.
I am guessing payprocs did not have any fucking clue the extent of backlash they would receive from just being extremely vauge / heavy handed.
Hopefully this can at least result in some more concrete and specific definitions of what they will and will not allow, so that existing platforms at least have an idea of what the actual rules are, and then from there, potentially a more targeted public pressure campaign could manifest.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
True, this is good news. But, it should not have come down to the entire fucking government of Japan weighting in on the global impacts of this insane decision!
Is this truly the amount of mountain-moving we have to do to counteract a single organization’s opinion?
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
The issue isn’t the amount of effort required to undo one action.
It is the complete lack of effort every other time this is done. Gamers Rise Up STILL pretend this is some watershed moment that nobody could have foreseen. And while it is always dangerous to consider The Internet to be a monolith, you can even see threads here where people didn’t care when it was just “incest and furry shit” on Steam.
Let alone when it was basically the entirety of Pornhub a couple years back.
And that is the problem. This kind of shit happens. Why should a megacorp fight it when nobody will care one way or another and this avoids any bad press? Why should news outlets report on it when the outcome will be “Ugh, fucking scammer journalists. How fucking dare they put that behind a paywall or have ads”?
So they just kind of acquiesce to the loudest voice in the room until people DO care.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
It looks like another commenter has already well replied to this, but uh, yes.
thunder crack
Welcome… to the real world.
Video games are treats.
Treats only flow by the arcane and abstract machinations of those with power, and those with power are fickle, greedy, and often do not busy themselves with the affairs of the hordes of useless eaters.
I agree with you, the power differential is absurdly vast, the situation is plainly ‘unfair’ by most viewpoints…
… but the question that matters is what are you going to do about that?
simple@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
That's false info, Japan sanctioning VISA was based on a 2021 investigation. The timing is a coincidence.