Ya, I tend towards the libertarian side of the political compass. That doesn’t always play well on Auth-Left dominated Lemmy. But, I never was one to care about imaginary internet points.
While I’m with you on the age restrictions, I suspect it wouldn’t have that much of an impact. Kids lie all the time about their age online, and I really hate the ideas of age verification which often gets floated with these things. There’s enough problems around tracking people already without laws mandating that tracking. And sadly, may of the kids who are currently enabled to play these games by their parents would still be enabled to play these games by their parents. Not too many 13 years olds are getting credit cards. Those kids’ parents are often the ones buying stuff. Though this is another place where “points” and the like are a problem. As kids can circumvent the restrictions by buying points cards with cash and then using them online. Still, no point letting “perfect” be the enemy of “good enough”.
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Ya, I tend towards the libertarian side of the political compass. That doesn’t always play well on Auth-Left dominated Lemmy. But, I never was one to care about imaginary internet points.
While I’m with you on the age restrictions, I suspect it wouldn’t have that much of an impact. Kids lie all the time about their age online, and I really hate the ideas of age verification which often gets floated with these things. There’s enough problems around tracking people already without laws mandating that tracking. And sadly, may of the kids who are currently enabled to play these games by their parents would still be enabled to play these games by their parents. Not too many 13 years olds are getting credit cards. Those kids’ parents are often the ones buying stuff. Though this is another place where “points” and the like are a problem. As kids can circumvent the restrictions by buying points cards with cash and then using them online. Still, no point letting “perfect” be the enemy of “good enough”.
The gift card racket for FN, Blizz, Roblox, etc is NUTSO! They dont even need CCs when they ask for only one thing each holiday.
But yea, fair point on the age restrictions. Somethings gotta give though.