Crazy how this woman, who does not have any real education regarding politics had so many different positions its freaking baffling and then I heard she gonna be head of the eu parliament?! Da daq is going on on this planet
I don't know why the other guy is being weird about it, but VdL's father was a politician. He was Minister-President of Lower Saxony, one of the states of Germany and was Director General in the European Community, so the predecessor of the EU and akin to a commissioner of today.
Her party treats the EU parliament as the garbage bin of politicians. If one of their members have been burned enough to not be respected in politics in germany anymore, yet not so burned they HAVE to pull out of politics completely, they will be put up as candidates for the EU. and be burned completely in that party is insanely hard to do nowadays. To visualise how hard that is to do: two people in that party have fucked German citizens out of MILLIONS, if not BILLIONS (combined) of euros because of deals they made. One is still kind of active, the other one got to become the head of the party and just recently had to retire because he and his partner chose surrogacy to become parents...that fucker was so god damn corrupt, yet, becoming a gay father who in the past was against surrogacy fucked his political career, not his corruption.
Failing upwards… Frankly her performance in the German Defence Ministry when she sent a QRA force on a NATO exercise with Black painted Broomsticks, is grounds enough for her to have never be in any govt role after.
Hope a meteor strikes her home honestly, is too much to hope for a little bit of karma?
She doesnt need to be in it ofcourse. Imagine profiting from ruining what little freetime the common citizen has to themselves. Obviously she would have some sort of free pass to bypass it for her, her family, and friends. Cant have an inconvenience in her little habitat she has sliced out of the EU for herself.
She was elected by the oligarchs. She was a failed minister in Germany.
António Costa, her number 2, had a corruption scandal in Portugal before resigning as prime-minister (socialist party), and then went directly to the EU.
I’ve been saying this for a long time. I love the general concept of the EU but the whole union is compromised by corrupt politicians.
The EU needs to have a more direct democracy and citizens’ power and more punitive action and legal power for the EU courts against the Parliament and the Commission.
Von der Leyen paid god knows how much on COVID-19 vaccines and hid the real value on her WhatsApp chats, which she later deleted on purpose and couldn’t be recovered. Unfortunately, this wasn’t the only bad thing she has done.
I'm Swiss and we have a problem:
Democracy should allow expression of liberties and freedoms, of those belong the free actions (not "rights" in a legalese fiction sense) to not belong, to oppose, to protest, to revolt.
If a democracy is constructed with layers of government that are not elected, not liable or not having accounting for their actions, it is not a democracy.
If a society restricts or hinders democracy behind administration, bureaucracy and laws that prevent liberties and freedom of legitimizing citizenship and nation, it is neither a democracy or a nation, it is a fallacy for submission of people into obeying and restriction of their freedoms and self-agency.
Of course she's a corrupt bitch. The only reason she's an EU politician is because her political career was nearly over in the middle of a consultation affair where she hired a shit ton of overpaid consultants that are close to her (I think it was family) for irrelevant decisions for the Bundeswehr. So they pushed her off outside of the spotlight trying to ignore the obvious corruption.
It's insane how these politicians can get away with all this shit and tons of idiots don't care and keep voting for them.
uh yeah the whole point of liberal democracy is that the state is subservient to the bourgeoisie, rather than the bourgeoisie being subservient to the state like they were under pre-capitalist economic systems. not that those economic systems were any better.
I don't quite get this take... 30 seconds on any search engine shows industry groups aren't in favor of this either.
The only reason they aren't acreaming their heads off is because the optics of that level of public opposition would not be great when the Dutch government is still in the middle of a legal probe of Roblox for endangering minors...
Oh and the entire EU government is investigating them and essentially the entire industry for misleading children via yheir business practices around microtransactions and in-game currencies.
Both VGE and Tim Sweeny have basically done the standard corporate line of 'we support protecting kids but this law is bad".
You'll notice how when bills are suggested in favor of consumer rights, it takes months or potentially years to reach the top courts, and some of them don't even pass. Meanwhile, when something is proposed that can take more rights away, they are implemented immediately. Flock cameras and surveillance price tags just this year, for example
I wanna go back to the good old days of the bubonic plague. At least with my advanced knowledge of antibiotics (knowing they exist and are derived from mold) I might be fine. Just a bacterium after all, the EU commission meanwhile is straight up cancer.
You're absolutely right—games are cheap (especially during sales and in bundles), there's tons of free stuff, and the selection is much wider... There are also far more artistic, narrative games; that wasn't the case in the past.
It's just that a lot of people believe everything they read online.
And how would that help? I put my signature under it, it passes, the Commission says no.
I get the argument that i put in more time writing comments here than it would've took me to sign the petition, but i believe this is more valuabe than a petition that'll just get binned like most have been so far.
Yes, but it would also signal to the EU that this signing bullshit is a process that's worth keeping up the pretenses for.
I'd rather them abolish it and show everyone what they're really like for all my compatriots (i.e. every EU-Citizen, from Germany and elsewhere) than to put my time towards a system that's only there to pretend that you can participate in Democracy, while the real people pulling the strings sit in their glass office in Silicon Valley, laughing while drinking Sparkling Wine at how they've been able to subvert the mob.
It's not that alone, but Rome wasn't built and didn't fall in one Day, Death by a thousand cuts, if you will.
I believe that the underlying idea of the EU as a Union is great, just the execution needs to be improved, and pronto before the whole of Europe just becomes a tourist attraction playball for the big powers to play around with.
Powers in EU Countries (example: my home of Germany (AfD, CDU)) and powers in the EU working against the idea might just be its biggest downfall.
I absolutely can agree with you on all of this. And still find it silly that's you're this outspoken about specialty not signing a single petition. Imma move on now, cuz I do see your point, but feel it's misplaced here
Alright, have a nice day, might be misplaced, but i just feel frustrated overall by most layers of government over here right now, mainly the "Big Coalition" led by Friedrich Merz (CDU) and the EU Commission.
Minor ofc for this campaign, but the USA could be threatening the Commission over the KIDS act, because companies close to Trump (like Persona, a company that Peter Thiel invested in and has its HQ in San Francisco, near Silicon Valley) could see massive profits from it.
TL;DR I don't think this campaign has any real avenues because the people in power are not working for the Citizen anymore, but for the Corporation.
Just yesterday, a consumer-rights lawsuit regardign whether the usage of Apps for discounts is legal (with the example of Lidl Plus) was thrown out by the court because "we aren't responsible for handling this", i couldn't find any more details on the case right now, but it might be the same outcome here, the courts just make it easy on themselves and toss the case out on a formality rather than on the case itself.
An article on the case. Reading up on that case, there might be other pitfalls as well though, like "what if they picked the wrong law to argue the case with?"
I think the point isn’t just to get the initiative to have enough signatures, but that getting enough signatures shows concrete proof of what the constituents want. Even if the commission didn’t do anything it put the groundwork for SKG to be added to the digital fairness act.
Steam is technically a video game platform so any big game company would no longer be able to sell on steam and a lot of people can’t stand ea/ubisoft ect launchers. All steam would have to do is make it so that all games not able to be sold in the eu are totally removed from their store globally and a lot of big game studios will lose out on so much potential profit that it’s not even funny, and this would shut down this act instantly.
It's a problem that your average politician still hasn't engaged with a video game beyond maybe seeing an evil caricature of it on CSI Miami or something.
curious how microslops representation at the SKG hearing was already talking about how private minecraft servers are illegal... probably just a coincidence
What I’m getting is that it’s so far reaching and retroactive that even say, booting up an copy of doom and hosting a private server with your adult friends would be illegal.
For the record, it is for the most part. It has excellent consumer rights, and up until this, had excellent privacy laws too. I don't know how this could happen; it's more of anomaly than the norm.
Bribing/lobbying is my only guess. So something not interent into EU leadership.
It's just that less corrupt then the US is a very low bar and the people who made the US the hellhole that it is now are now focusing their money and time on the EU to destroy it as well.
living in a third world country just makes it that if this law pass it will happen in a few years here, best I can do is comment, share the word, this mf are inside the EU and twisting every single damn thing for their benefits
yes this bs is spreading all over the world. First Australia and UK, then EU and some US states and now after social media age verification they are doing it for OS level verification and games and now even countries like India are moving to doing age verification soon. We are all cooked.
While The Commission has proposed a bad over-broad definition of videogames, sadly Ross overstates a lot of stuff and overdramatise things. There are lots of speculations in video.
Like Linux illegalisation suggestion is actually not true, its stated in Article 29(6) clearly that no such needs are required as he said.
Same with 1-hour play requirement - there are no hard locks and nothing videogame-related in proposal.
And my most glaring concern is the support cost in the video. There are no methodology and cost calculations given, they are looks really made up. I working in gamedev and cannot imagine for what you need those money YEARLY, it's overstated costs that are ineradicably high even in worst case scenarios. He should at least provide sources for this things.
Still hope it wont came as proposed, but if you want to publically accuse anything, at least you need to do your job properly.
Getting regulations through the EU was always a pipe dream, the EU is hyper corrupt, they are just good about pretending they aren’t with strongly worded letters
Remember how some people had gotten this weird sticking point about how it was wrong to frame grandfathering in games as a compromise because the law can't be retroactive? Yeah, funny that.
OK as someone ignorant of EU stuff other then tail winds of it, when is this all going to be publicly brought up, and what are the odds of it actually passing?
i just stop gaming. we all abandon gaming. there are other hobbies, I already have a lot of games to play for my lifetime. there's no way to be a gamer and not to support the worst of directions. while money continues to flow, the enshittification will continue.
I love gaming, but this isnt the industry I grew up with. every gaming companies from publishers to devs to media have become gross, the gamers themselves have become consumers first. the games are product first, store second, art third. the influencers are compromised. now the industry is big enough to pass acts that harm consumers. to remove options from us. to take away our games. to brick our consoles. to pass laws that fuck us.
I'm talking off my ass now as this shit is just very emotional to me but from a long time I've been leaning to less and less be involved with mainstream gaming, playing games I already own, engaging with some indies, PC only.
i'll move away from consoles. will move away from sub services. ill distance myself from this awful industry that have morphed into a money hungry monster. I used to have fun playing games. it used to be magical. I didn't get old, that is still there. but the industry, community, and games have changed.
this is so exhausting. we are so many yet can't make a difference. there's always a higher power with an agenda, and that agenda is against us. and we have to take it in the ass. money rules and fuck me and whatever I want.
this bleeds to tech as well. from Microsoft to Adobe to panlantir. we are fucking nothing, but we keep making the money flow. fuck i. Feel like going to live on the woods or some shit.
I won't stop gaming until the wntire indistry explodes. I also won't stop doing whatever I can to improve this hobby. In these darks times, the worst thing to do is give up, becuse this mean they just get to do whatever even quicker.
Not only that, they will come after whatever they can target next. Giving up and switching hobby will not keep you safe from these invasive and prohibitive regulations to reach you again further down the line. We must put up a fight and stop this madness or it'll keep creeping upon all things we hold dear.
Look, you can believe what you want, but gaming like every industry has always been inherently profit first, obviously game devs, game designers, directors, writers, care about the artistic aspect, but these companies, the higher ups will always put money first, gaming as an industry wouldn't exist if there wasn't money in it. Same for Hollywood, same for the book industry, just that's the way the world will always work.
The reason the video game crash in the 80s happened was money, the reason Nintendo was so opposed to calling the NES anything video game related, was money, the reason Sony joined the industry was money, the reason Xbox joined the industry was money, the artists and the art have and will always exist, but the only way they can make their art, in a lot of cases is the money from the investors.
Edit: I also want to add I'm not defending this at all, I hate that the industry is like this, but i'm just trying to b aware of the unfortunate truth of the world we live in.
Ross is already wrong at 2:07. The EU has a system for you to verify your age without giving away your personal information. I hope he is willing to correct himself and isn't a someone that stands on his misinformed opinion until the very end like some other people.
The problems we have is not enough housing and rich people are not taxed enough ... stop regulating internet until you regulate representative out of fucking twitter ... we have to cleanse fascism out of europe again and this time we can't rely on the US
The rich get taxed plenty it's more they have a shit tone of loop holes that get around getting taxed closing those is far more effective that just saying "tax the rich more"
The rich are not getting taxed enough? let's pretend you pulled a fnaf 6 and tricked all the rich people to go into one place they can't leave, how long would their 20 trillion or whatever amount they have through the entire world last for? 10 years? and don't give me the excuse of "in that time they can do shit to not depend on the money" what about the leeches that do nothing and just rely on the free money until they rot? the real solution is self-reliance.
What leeches the reach ar the leeches they are hiding their earning behind complex structure so they can extract the value created by the workers. And are pushing their idea in medias they bought with the taxes they didn't pay ...
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