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[–] Skullgrid 393 points 1 week ago (42 children)

this is starting to be horseshit. Every windows computer has a version of fucking solitare on it , there are other card based games that don't get this treatment, and the lootboxes are actual gambling.

I thought at the start it was a type of beurocratical problem, but it's been too long.

[–] tb_ 159 points 1 week ago (19 children)

Not entirely sure about the European PEGI, but the American ESRB is funded by the same companies that it regulates. It was created after the outcry about violent games and was the industry self-regulating to avoid the government getting more involved.

It is a lobby group for the industry, for better and in this case very much for worse.

I assume PEGI is little different.

[–] tlou3please 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

In fairness, I would much rather that than governments directly controlling access, creating an additional form of direct censorship.

Not saying what we have now is great or anything though. I'm not exactly defending it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Eeeeh, at least then there would theoretically be public accountability. The FCC has limited censorship power that they're generally unobjectionable with.

I'm honestly more concerned with the censorship from private enterprises than with government consorship currently. Less accountability and less recourse.

It also really only becomes censorship if the rating system is used to prohibit speech. If we instead made it more like the nutritional guidelines on food it could instead give more of a content breakdown than setting an arbitrary age.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's basically why the ESRB was created, it was "Self-Regulate, or we're just going to ban 80% of games on the market as a scapegoat for Columbine!"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Luigi Mangione played Among Us, an assassination game!

[–] tb_ 3 points 1 week ago

I largely agree, but the interests have gotten misaligned. Back then it was the threat of regulation which changed things up, I think the governments should do a little more of that.

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