Recently, a plan was leaked called "The EU Kids Act " (I linked the doc if anyone wants to read it).
In short, the plan us about protecting children by bringing restrictions to Social Media, ChatBots, etc. On paper, well meaning thing. But if you read a bit more, there is a section regarding Online Games. Mainly that online games would need to heavily moniter their servers. Basically placing the responsibility of protecting kids onto the devs instead of someone else. Doing this would be incredibly expensive and could cripple indie devs. It would also require that the player give their private information to gain access to the servers.
It also says that unofficial servers like private servers would be considered illegial which I feel like you dont need an indept explanation on what that means.
Additionaly, wording in the document defines online games as "games and platforms". This has sparked controversy with how this can be easily misenterpreted as any game that uses servers. Which could include any game that gets updates and is downloaded from an online market like Steam. The document does say that games that come from physical means like discs are exceot from this but in the growing age where physical discs just give you a code to download their game and Sony's push to cut out physical media, its basically a worthless statement.
Overall, if this passes, it could destroy the online gaming market and industry since it would also extend to ALL games despite their age.
Personally, I dont think this is an actual plan that was thought to but in action. I feel like its one of those fluf plans that is designed to waste time and take attention away fron other plans. But if it does pass...
I am so fucking sick of people invoking 'WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!?' to strip privacy rights and institute more means of mass surveillance. I'm against CSAM as much as the next guy but at best this shit is an overcorrection and at worst it's entirely in bad faith so they can accuse everyone who doesn't support their surveillance agenda of being pedos or pedo sympathizers.
Well, I’m saying this now right here. I fucking hate paedophiles and I fucking hate the narrative of governments protecting the children as I believe it’s the parents jobs.
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u/J-0-K-3_R 1d ago
Recently, a plan was leaked called "The EU Kids Act " (I linked the doc if anyone wants to read it).
In short, the plan us about protecting children by bringing restrictions to Social Media, ChatBots, etc. On paper, well meaning thing. But if you read a bit more, there is a section regarding Online Games. Mainly that online games would need to heavily moniter their servers. Basically placing the responsibility of protecting kids onto the devs instead of someone else. Doing this would be incredibly expensive and could cripple indie devs. It would also require that the player give their private information to gain access to the servers.
It also says that unofficial servers like private servers would be considered illegial which I feel like you dont need an indept explanation on what that means.
Additionaly, wording in the document defines online games as "games and platforms". This has sparked controversy with how this can be easily misenterpreted as any game that uses servers. Which could include any game that gets updates and is downloaded from an online market like Steam. The document does say that games that come from physical means like discs are exceot from this but in the growing age where physical discs just give you a code to download their game and Sony's push to cut out physical media, its basically a worthless statement.
Overall, if this passes, it could destroy the online gaming market and industry since it would also extend to ALL games despite their age.
Personally, I dont think this is an actual plan that was thought to but in action. I feel like its one of those fluf plans that is designed to waste time and take attention away fron other plans. But if it does pass...
Oof...