Please look a the video it will explain the problem whole lot better than I ever could. But if you think it is important please sign the petition.
The EU Commision is rolling out a law that will severly impede our rights when it comes to digital products.
So the European Comission will not act on the Stop Destroying Videogames initiative, because it wants to focus on deregulation, because apparently current regulations are too much of a burden on businesses (source needed).
And the same European Comission is perfectly fine implementing new regulations for the purposes of… ruining everything for everybody and establishing close to the most totalitarian regime in existence right now?
See, there’s always space for new regulation, as long as it benefits the oligarchs, and nobody else but the oligarchs!
Lobbying is corruption and the EU got ruined by it just like the USA.
Sounds like the working class of the USA and the working class of the EU have a common problem then.
This law will literally end indie game studios in the EU. Or at least prevent them from selling in the continent they are based in.
Oh and it is not only games. Has anyone a idea how to implement age verification for the fediverse? So have fun here as long as it lasts, because it will all burn under this law!
I really wish we would move to some more resilient protocol, where the roles and responsibilities are more distributed, and identities fully portable.
and what would that change in regards of that law? It would still need a way to implement age verification and I really don’t see a way for an open, federated, distributed system like the fediverse to implement it. It is in its core principles incompatible with age verification. I can’t see a way for the fediverse to survive this law, not in the EU at least.
It would still need a way to implement age verification
Not really. Take nostr as an example. You probably wouldn’t even notice if one or more of your relays went down due to legal, or any other problem. The move to a non compliant or offshore relay is just a single click away. No registrations, no new usernames, no new social graph.
It’s not about becoming compliant, it’s about becoming ungovernable.
They will try and try again, even if we could fight it this time.
The EU doesn’t represent the interests of ordinary people.
It’s the EU Commission under Von Der Leyen. The European People’s Party got 13 seats out of 27 in the Commission. It’s the Christian democrat /conservative /center right liberal party of the EU. No wonder they are for this law.
The EU Parliament has people in it that are actually fighting for us.
Like ?
I don’t want to live on this planet anymore :(
This timeline sucks balls.
