• Aatube
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      39 days ago

      Not everyone buys a separate device for their children or knows how to/can set up a user account.

      • @[email protected]
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        29 days ago

        Then why tf a game is responsible for their monetory loss? Children are susceptible to many more scams. And on top of that taking such privacy invasive ‘measure’ to solve it doesn’t make sense either. Children can even upload patent’s ids if parents are so careless anyway.

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          18 days ago

          Regardless of who’s responsible, children should not be gambling. Why is everyone magnifying “responsibility”? Scamming children is illegal and having them gamble is/should also be illegal. I’ll also link you https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/14325340.

          Children can even upload patent’s ids

          1. We don’t even know they’re gonna use IDs to verify. Steam just uses a birthdate dropdown to comply with legal things.
          2. No, it takes a lot more carelessness for children to be able to find parents’ IDs in the wild.
          • @[email protected]
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            18 days ago

            Scamming children is illegal. Solution isn’t banning children or requiring id to compromise others’ privacy too (who for example play without gambling). This whole thing is bs.

            1. people store id in their phone most of the time.
            • Aatube
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              18 days ago

              Again, this is gambling, and gambling is not scamming. What else do you propose to fix providing gambling services to children?

              people store id in their phone most of the time.

              No. Everyone Gen X and Y that I know of have passports in a cabinet and IDs in a wallet.

        • @[email protected]
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          49 days ago

          Damn, got 'em. Actually, they deserve to lose $16,000 while raising a gambling addict because they didn’t pull up their bootstraps and micromanage everything their preteen does in “that colorful game they play.”

          Mate, asking under-13s to get parent permission is provoking that good parenting you seem to care about anyway—what on earth is the problem?

          • @[email protected]
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            19 days ago

            Parental controls (or just not inputting card details into a phone the child has access to) is a fairly effective way to prevent the child spending the parent’s money without then knowing. Micromanagement is not typically considered good parenting; however showing interest in, and having some knowledge of, what your child spends significant time doing is.

            • @[email protected]
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              28 days ago

              Do you have children and have you had to use parental controls for some games? The controls largely suck so much and just end up being a source of endless frustration. They are not what I would call effective.

              • @[email protected]
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                08 days ago

                Preventing purchases should (as far as I am aware, is) be an app store level setting on mobile devices. Parental controls should be better than they currently are, but ID requirements (or other PII) are not the solution.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    18 days ago

                    Not everyone buys a separate device for their children or knows how to/can set up a user account.

                    This comment is a parenting related issue, the technicality illiterate might forget to take the proper precautions when letting their child use their phone and blame the game instead of taking responsibility for their actions.

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                    18 days ago

                    this law is the result of bad parenting. if parents would parent, nothing like this would be needed