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The ESRB wants to start using facial recognition to check people's ages (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The FTC is now seeking public feedback on the ESRB's proposal.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Ok now this is sad, but it made me burst out laughing. This is an org that allows actual gambling with actual money on actual gambling machines in a sports game rated 3+, while having a cards minigame makes a game 17+ otherwise. These guys want to make sure a person is old enough to... Do what, exactly? It's titties, isn't it? They always only go after the titties.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

"What sense does it make to forbid selling to a 13-year-old boy a magazine with an image of a nude woman, while protecting a sale to that 13-year-old of an interactive video game in which he actively, but virtually, binds and gags the woman, then tortures and kills her?”

Justice Stephen Breyer*, somehow arguing the opposite of what you’d think this paragraph means.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

According to Wikipedia, that quote is from Justice Stephen Breyer but yeah I got a chuckle out of your comment.