Comment by renegat0x0
20 days ago
Few my ideas about how things will be going
- platforms are going to be forced to collect more data about you
- The amount of places without you showing IDs will decrease
- There will be more "moderation". You will not be able to provide nsfw contents, then you will not be able to host controversial topics. I suspect games will be more "kid friendly". No more real doom, gta, or Mortal Kombat for you. I remember how they provided more clothes on women for mortal Kombat
- The rules will always be vague, and used sporadically. Just like YouTube rules, where companies often abuse DMCA just to shut you off, or ban you, if you are not playing nice. Like Schlep.
- Corporations will create pressures on validated users, or ban you for life, but often they will just use "fear" to police people by themselves. Just like people will use "unalive" words, because they know they can get into trouble for saying a different word
- Google will be able to police extensions by banning people
- It is all a boiling frog scenario, where it creeps one law after another until everything is moderated, controlled by corporations
- The safety increases, but freedom decreases
- Free software people will often be mixed in article texts with terrorists, bad actors, predators, pedophiles
- It can happen because people do not understand these mechanisms, and they want "safer" world, in which nobody can get hurt, but it is also a place without you being free
I don't think it's coming for games. Kids don't play on PC or console, they play on phones. PC games are "sad dad stories" like "the last of us" now.
It's already came for the games. Recently there were news about mastercard & visa prohibiting nsfw games from steam.
> The safety increases, but freedom decreases
It's never safe when there's no freedom.