Comment on EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games
verdi@feddit.org 1 week ago
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 1 week ago
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 1 week ago
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.”
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Fun fact! These cases, like the bananas, snails, or carrots being classified as fruit, were all being used as examples of “lol, dumb EU bureaucracy”, but were actually examples of brilliant lawmaking.
The curvature of bananas was specifically aimed at making it harder for China to flood the EU market with their bananas, thus saving local production from going bust.
The snails were a similar case to the carrots. The EU has subsidies for jam makers, to make them more competitive with non-EU jam makers. As it turned out, in one region in France, people made jam from carrots, but “jam” was defined in legislature as “a product made from fruits”. Which meant that the EU could spend a lot of time and money on re-writing the original law allowing the subsidies… or just redefine carrots as “fruits” for the specific purpose of that one law. As in: nobody in the EU considers carrots as fruits, it was only and specifically done to allow those French farmers to get subsidies for their jam making.
It’s brilliant and efficient.