Re:Epic Games to pay $520M to resolve FTC allegations
by burnished on Monday December 19, 2022 @01:35PM
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I think a difficulty here is that a lot of responders are imagining that all children are the same precocious 13 year old they were -forgetting the trusting 8 to 10 year olds they also were, and they are doing that thing where the edge cases start to dwarf the primary purpose in their minds.
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Re:Epic Games to pay $520M to resolve FTC allegations
by ethanbond on Monday December 19, 2022 @02:48PM
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Yeah apparently on the one hand, setting the default to Off would absolutely clobber Fortnite's engagement metrics and the law is unjust for this. On the other hand, setting the default to Off would not make a dent in children's usage of this product and therefore the law is useless.
Re:Epic Games to pay $520M to resolve FTC allegations
by abakker on Monday December 19, 2022 @10:58PM
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Who cares about their engagement metrics? Like, what societal good does it do? I’m not sure the law is unjust because a company’s (non financial) metrics are impacted when the law acts as intended.
For the record, I’m pro games and against pearl clutching game ratings and “for the children” style laws, but I’m also not very sympathetic to big companies profits being a motivation for our lawmakers.