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Say it with me: It's not age verification; it's identity collection.
I was told I needed to submit age verification to Steam. I'm 43 and My account is 22 years old....
But they need to make sure you're not a kid who stole the time machine of their parents to travel back in time for experiencing gaming as in the ancient times.
Exactly, this shit. I got hit with an age check on ebay for buying a bladed weapon, a tiling trowel, had the account since 2006
I will easily sound unpopular, but I don't think it is a good strategy. It doesn't matter if the “Protect the children” statement is genuine or pure gaslighting. What counts is that it is an easy win for politicians, and if SKG ties up against age verification laws, the risk is that it could lose support of those politicians who have expressed their interest in it.
Think about it: SKG could risk to be ruled out by those politicians who are endorsing the Online Safety initiatives. If these MEPs are put in the position to choose between "Protect the Games" or "Protect the Children", there is no way they will choose the former, because the latter is an easier reputational win.
It's a matter of strategy: you should take a little battle at time, because the moment you are clubbing battles together, you are just increasing the probability of losing all of them together.
Politicians selling mass surveillance as either "protecting the children" or "stopping terrorism" is a tale as old as time.
The point isn't to have an easy win, but to both serve their donors and to make the surveillance state more powerful to crush dissent against their donors and themselves.
It's a traditional English practice at this point
No, you don't seem to see the point of my comment above: it DOES NOT MATTER what they mean with "protecting the children". What matters is that as soon as you bind your cause to an unpopular one, you are just increasing your chances of losing. I care about SKG, and I don't want it to fail because of a change of priorities. You are aware that Politics is a matter of pragmatism, aren't you?