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0 pointsl23k47d ago0 comments

This is idiotic. "The industry" are also European citizens.

It's about balancing the interests of people who pay their rent and feed their children by selling games, and the interests of people who merely enjoy games.

Consulting only the group which enjoys games would be absurd to the point of being actively malicious.

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monegator7d ago· 3 in thread

Hey! That's exactly what lobbyists against regulations would say!

Your mindset is why we got rid out of nuclear energy. Nuclear lobby bad, consumer lobby good. Consumer lobby didn't care that what they wanted was impossible (risk free free, carbon free, cheap energy) and angrily demanded by law things the industry couldn't provide, and got nothing as a result. It might very well be the case for this gaming law as well, that the result would have been less games in Europe as game producer would avoid a market that makes unprofitable demands.

tcfhgj7d ago

risk free & cheap lol

s1artibartfast7d ago

SkG is a lobbyist too!

skotobaza7d ago· 2 in thread

But the commission did consult with the industry much more than with the initiative, they misrepresented the initiative and no balance was achieved...

l23k4OP7d ago

And your solution is to exclude the industry from the process? That's what Frieren is proposing, and specifically what I am attacking.

skotobaza7d ago

Of course not. I'd rather the commission talked equally to both parties involved instead of preferring the one with the stronger lobbying.

It's a much smaller set of European citizens, and yet they have a much larger access to lawmakers. So no, it's not idiotic.

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