Disagree. Not because I don’t want corporations to do something, but because the ways they’d need to implement are a net-negative overall.
There’s a huge discussion going on right now about age verification on OS level. That’s exactly the kind of shitty results we get when we have other entities being responsible for child safety than the parents. And that’s not a world I want to live in. I don’t want to have to upload my government ID to any service I want to use and live in a borderline surveillance state because parents aren’t able to pay attention to their children.
They were also the ones to bring out the 30% cut mocking the people talking about it in general and when I called them out they doubled down saying that sharing an opinion is not defending a corporation. Lmao
I see so many bad takes from them in this thread and it’s wild to see people upvote them. I thought the users here would know better about tech instead of getting parasocial with a corporation and thinking it can’t do bad…
Yup. People forget that the internet is adult by default. A child cannot buy an internet connection.
The “protect the children” crowd, while they think they mean well, are fucking clowns. Let’s start with actually protecting them, you know what the biggest killer of children is? Cars. Let’s ban them first, shall we?
We should never have to show ID to use the internet, it’s crazy dystopian, giving governments and corporations more and more control of our lives.
Disagree. Not because I don’t want corporations to do something, but because the ways they’d need to implement are a net-negative overall.
There’s a huge discussion going on right now about age verification on OS level. That’s exactly the kind of shitty results we get when we have other entities being responsible for child safety than the parents. And that’s not a world I want to live in. I don’t want to have to upload my government ID to any service I want to use and live in a borderline surveillance state because parents aren’t able to pay attention to their children.
Ager verification is absolutely not a necessity to curtail gambling, obviously.
They were also the ones to bring out the 30% cut mocking the people talking about it in general and when I called them out they doubled down saying that sharing an opinion is not defending a corporation. Lmao
I see so many bad takes from them in this thread and it’s wild to see people upvote them. I thought the users here would know better about tech instead of getting parasocial with a corporation and thinking it can’t do bad…
It is. There is no other way to “protect the children” if you don’t want parents to do their job.
It isn’t. There are lots of other ways. Gambling is a heavily regulated industry. Valve just sidesteps this by not being designated as such.
I do want parents to do their job. The problem is they don’t. And who suffers when they don’t? Not me, not you, and not the parents. Its the children.
Yup. People forget that the internet is adult by default. A child cannot buy an internet connection.
The “protect the children” crowd, while they think they mean well, are fucking clowns. Let’s start with actually protecting them, you know what the biggest killer of children is? Cars. Let’s ban them first, shall we?
We should never have to show ID to use the internet, it’s crazy dystopian, giving governments and corporations more and more control of our lives.