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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] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 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] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I could see him take that to argue either way with no clear winner. Which direction was it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I assume he wanted to ban both sexual content and fictional violence.

[–] [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.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Entertainment_Merchants_Association

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yep, my original source got it wrong, confusing the two dissenting opinions