• 16 hours

    I reaaally want to hope that gamers will be smart enough to take their anger to the right place: The legislature that pushed these bills. But knowing most of them, the anger is all going to go to Sony.

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    Facial Estimation shouldnt be an option. It should be government ID or parents ID thats it.

    • More like just a date field that you input manually if there must be an age check. Fuck scanning my ID or my face

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        what would that achieve? Every kid would set the ps5 up and put that field as 18

        • That’s the point. Why does a video game need anything more than that? Who’s responsibility is it to make sure a gamer is of age or mature enough for a certain game? What arbitrary system is in place to even label a game as needing verification?

          Why would you need to prove anything simply to use the device? Fuck all that.

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            Ohh you’re entirely against the concept of age verification. I dont care about that I am just commenting on the age verification method.

            • We can’t get any kind of gun registration and safer schools, but you’re ok with this bullshit invasion of privacy? Once they get firearms under control, I’ll be more open to ID verifications. Until then, they’re just blowing smoke up your ass. It’s a facade to get your info under the guise of “safety”. Our politicians can go fuck themselves.

              https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/charts-and-maps

            • I am entirely against it too. Here is my solution

              Shit comes in kids mode by default to unlock you use a 1 doller euro etc payment on a credit card

              There. Fixed now its no longer fucking with my privacy and lazy shithead parents can’t complain about child safety because they unlocked it

  • One thing I don’t get why people care is, they already have your face in video form if you’ve been in any video ever on the internet (which I’m positive, the majority of humans have)

    Like fb requiring it. If you’ve ever sent any selfie vid to anyone , they have it already. So why even ask?

    • Because complacency and defeatism isn’t the right answer. We shouldn’t make it easier for them in any way we can, and we sure don’t have to like it either. Push back.

      • Right, I get that, but a normal person will just say they already have all my data there’s nothing we can do, why care. They have kids and rent to pay.

        • I don’t know about you, but at least in my circle, being “sick and tired of this shit” is becoming extremely normal.

          People hate Windows. They hate how apps become more complicated, not simpler. They hate how everything is becoming a subscription. They hate how keeping their files safe is a giant clusterfuck of managing half a dozen cloud services constantly sucking up every file from every one of their devices. They hate how TVs aren’t just fucking TVs anymore. They hate how their toaster, oven, dishwasher, and coffee maker needs wifi. They hate how all their favorite things are fragmeneted across a dozen streaming services again. They hate how work involves figuring out a dozen chat apps plus email, a dozen file processing programs, and how all their names and icons keep changing and their prices keep increasing. They hate how remembering up to a hundred account password is an absolutely catastrophy. They hate how their purchases don’t last. They hate how “no” doesn’t exist anymore in marketing…

          I could go on.

          Speak to literally anyone, and they’ve DEFINITELY picked on at least some part of this, and it has them absolutrly livid about how unfair it is.

          • The market is right for disruption. Anyone who can deliver real privacy without invest and harmful facial recognition and identity verification can topple Fortune 500 companies. These companies are also simultaneously betting the farm on generative AI which will almost certainly lose them enough money that many will close up shop. Oracle is basically done for, for example, because they invested so much money into an AI data center for opening eye that when an opening I inevitably does not have the money to pay for it they will go bankrupt. The harms from this invasive tackle are not only well known but will only compound and people will start to feel unsafe using them soon

        • This stuff is getting pushed in our face and is actively harmful. There is literally no benefit to the individual for this. What do I have to gain? The business is imposing this on us for their own gain.

          • If you dont do it, no play play for you.

            Thats the reason people do it . they do not care. Tech corps have all the data already.

            • We were told it was just for pond sites, now it’s video games and chat apps. It’s spreading fast.

    • I deleted Facebook over 10 years ago. I’ve worked to remove as much of my true self from the Internet as possible since. I care. I’m not going to voluntarily give that shit up for something as trivial as a video game.

      • Sure.

        If you’ve been around the internet or been in public ever, or done anything with media like YouTube videos or sent a video to your friend with your face in it, they have your face in video already. Thats what I’m saying. They already have it.

        • Then we’re done. They have it, no need for me to put anything else.

          Also, these companies are already ready to lose your data, that they just had you verify is you, with probably address, cc info, definitely IP. just because your photo is out there doesn’t mean you should willingly out yourself.