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Re:Epic Games to pay $520M to resolve FTC allegations by _fat_santa on Monday December 19, 2022 @09:55AM (#34052754)
Epic could add a dose of CYA here. Disable voice and text chat, and put the enable switch behind a "for 18+ only" or something like that and have them confirm their birthdate. Not that it would actually stop minors from bypassing this by clicking through the prompt and entering a fake age. But this would allow Epic to argue to the court that they are doing more than their competitors to verify that children are not using voice/text chat and that requiring them to go further would be unfair.

* Not a lawyer

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Re:Epic Games to pay $520M to resolve FTC allegations by TheBrokenRail on Monday December 19, 2022 @10:07AM (#34052920)
When we get into situations like this, you do have to question if the law requiring it is just plain silly.
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Re:Epic Games to pay $520M to resolve FTC allegations by Workaccount2 on Monday December 19, 2022 @10:39AM (#34053318)
Thinking about it, I can't blame the FTC for requiring it even if it is laughably stupid. If their mandate is "Do the best you can", putting in some obstruction to kids voice chat is better than nothing. Even if it only prevents 0.00001 more kids from using voice chat, their mandate is to choose that over 0.
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