Comment on Brazil's president has signed a ban on selling loot boxes to minors as part of a larger online child safety law

MudMan@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Said this elsewhere, but it seems to me a bigger story that it also mandates age verification for 18 plus content, including porn and at the platform level.

Steam needs to verify your age now if it wants to carry porn games.

And I do have problems with loot boxes, in that it doesn't qualify the boxes having to be paid, so technically Diablo II should be a 18+ game, along with every single RPG in existence. I have to assume courts or downstream definitions will do a sanity check on that, because the law they passed makes zero qualifiers, it just says "loot boxes".

So... maybe look into what they passed before being too celebratory about it?

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