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

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Hirom@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I’m not convinced an outright ban would be helpful. Regulation focused on harm reduction, ie restricting to adult like various kind of gambling, would be less heavyhanded, hopefully better compromise.

Looping back on the earlier comments, adding extra requirements on age verification is the more controversial part. Especially since privacy-preserving solutions aren’t ready. Clearly neither of us are happy with that.

I’d be happy if regulators just categorized loot box as gambling, applying the existing declarative age verification that already apply to gambling.

The choice between state regulation and self-regulation depend on various factors, eg exactly how it’s implemented, people’s opinion on freedom to operate companies without state intervention. A meta-analysis conclude results vary a lot from self regulation, it can go well or fail. This is just an opinion and nothing definitive, but I don’t think the game editors that make money from setup efficient self-regulation. It would hurt their bottom line.

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