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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

i mean, out of all things a company can do that are bad, underage gambling is probably one of the better ones, and the argument in favor of it is that it's on games like csgo and cs2, where the age range is obviously higher than an actual child.

Realistically, i think you have to be kind of stupid to get caught in gambling, but it is also definitely predatory, and there's a reason it's a heavily regulated industry. There's definitely a better solution than we currently have, but it's not as bad as it could be either.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

"underage gambling is probably one of the better ones", "you have to be kind of stupid to get caught in gambling" you seem like you do not know what you are talking about respectfully.
Have you watched cofeezilla? The industry already has armed mafia structures.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

i'm just saying, i can think of a lot worse things a company can do. Amazon, notably. Most countries without substantial labor protection laws, probably also rank worse. Countries currently at war, or controlled by gang violence, probably also worse.

The prison industrial complex, that's pretty bad. Spending money because you're mentally incapable of processing how spending money in that fashion is bad, yeah probably possibly to be worse than that.

Have you watched cofeezilla? The industry already has armed mafia structures.

im sorry steam has a militia?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Sure there is always worse, but you don't have to like B because of what A did.

steam does not, but the economy, that they are center of has. Operators of online skin casinos are adopting mafia tactics. You could say "oh, that is just some fringe groups at the outside", but these actors are deeply embedded with streamers, competitive events and the entire culture.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

yeah that's pretty typical of any sort of "tradeable currency" digital or not, these sites are all hosted in countries with favorable laws, and in places where it's hard to regulate them.

There's shitty people on the internet, should we personally vet and maintain every single user of the internet, or should we just be "moderate" about it. The question of the ages, how much do we actually care about this specific problem.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Look, I agree, that they do many good things for consumer protection. They blocked NFT in games and in game advertisement, but they sit at the center of a damaging marketplace and could stop it, but don't and deserve criticism for that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

and it is fair criticism, i have no problem with that. I'm just not sure it's worth demonizing them over. A lot of companies, even good ones, have bad practices, it's just the way the world works, it's hard to do everything absolutely perfectly.

Again, not trying to justify it, i'm just saying there's a level of expectation i think you need to set.

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