The campaign against predatory in-game practices takes a step forward in Brazil, as President Lula bans loot boxes targeted at under-18s

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• TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Loot boxes should be banned and in game currency needs to be banned as well. I’m so tired of this just accepted practice of scamming people out of money with shitty in game currency prices.

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• bookmeat@lemmynsfw.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Just ban them for EVERYONE.

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I mean, if you ban gambling as well, I guess.

    Not a big fan of state control of leisure though.

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• MudMan@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Also porn.

  And it's written in pretty much the exact same way as the UK anti-porn thing, where age ratings alone won't cut it, so if you want to make smut games in Brazil you need to have some sort of "effective" age gating to allow parents to close it off to their kids.

  Art. 12. Os provedores de lojas de aplicações de internet e de sistemas operacionais de terminais deverão:

  I – tomar medidas proporcionais, auditáveis e tecnicamente seguras para aferir a idade ou a faixa etária dos usuários, observados os princípios previstos no art. 6º da Lei nº 13.709, de 14 de agosto de 2018 (Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais);

  II – permitir que os pais ou responsáveis legais configurem mecanismos de supervisão parental voluntários e supervisionem, de forma ativa, o acesso de crianças e de adolescentes a aplicativos e conteúdos; e

  III – possibilitar, por meio de Interface de Programação de Aplicações (Application Programming Interface – API) segura e pautada pela proteção da privacidade desde o padrão, o fornecimento de sinal de idade aos provedores de aplicações de internet, exclusivamente para o cumprimento das finalidades desta Lei e com salvaguardas técnicas adequadas.

  So where are we on this one? We gonna be the "fuck free speech, I hate loot boxes" or "fuck thinking of the children, we like our smutty stuff"?

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  • Barrington@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Are you saying loot boxes are a freedom of speech issue?

    Stop mixing 2 different issues. Gambling is highly addictive and is designed to extract as much money out of people as possible. Porn is something totally different. Both should be age gated in my opinion but they are still 2 very different issues.

    Also, you’re an idiot.

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    • MudMan@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      How are they different? They're both activities we allow for adults but not for children. For, arguably, good reasons.

      I mean, you can be into one more than into another, and you can argue whether or not loot boxes should qualify as gambling, but for practical purposes when it comes to regulation they are fairly interchangeable.

      Not that it matters, because regardless of what you and I think, they are listed together in the law. I'm not mixing diffferent issues, the law is specifically, explicitly applying the exact same regulation to porn and loot boxes. Doesn't matter how you feel about it, the Brazilian regulators think they're the same here.

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    • StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Better an idiot than an asshole or, in your case, both.

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  • NovaSel@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Crap, and here I thought they were doing a good thing

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• Newsteinleo@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Loot boxes are a form of gambling and should be regulated as such. And for that matter I would argue that packs of magic cards are the same thing.

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• reactionality@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Good. Fuck FIFA and those idiotic predatory schemes.

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