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Stop Killing Games Official StopKillingGames@mastodon.social

All hands on deck!

The EU could end by collapsing the EU gaming market and making private and community servers illegal!:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQRcK9nYg9g

"The best thing you can do is spread the word...The people who write this crap do not like it when the public at large knows what they're trying to do to you" - Ross Scott

Don't just take our word for it, here's the EU Kids Act to see for yourself:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:52026PC0681

Ross also has more links in the video description

How the EU Kids Act applies to video games The following will apply to all EU residents & all video game companies conducting business in the EU All requirements will apply retroactively The video game lobby is probably fine with most of this: What it will definitely do: - Require your personal identifying information to play an online video game -Make it illegal to operate an online video game without a complex age verification process -Make all private game servers illegal (due to no exemptions for private servers from this proposal) - Raises costs on developers by roughly ~$300k - 500k for the first year (~$200k - $350k for subsequent years) - Turn the EU into a pariah state for online video games except for the largest publishers The video game lobby probably does not want most of this: What it might do: (the proposal's wording is unclear) -Make all digitally distributed games require personal identification and an age verification process -Make all physical games that contain any online component (like updates) require personal identification and an age verification process -Make most distributions of Linux illegal -Collapse the EU video game market except for the largest publishers

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@blechlawine @EUCommission @StopKillingGames I believe identity verification to be an important unsolved problem. Any reproducible form of ID which falls into the hands of a bad actor (or a good actor who has been hacked) becomes unreliable See The Proof of Identity Problem

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