Whenever someone tells me I look 14 despite holding my ID in their hands where it clearly says I'm double that.

Shades of when Australia tried to ban women with A-cups from making pornography because something something protect the children.

Yeah when I was like 20 and waiting tables I'd always get older women telling me I looked like their grandson and for some reason feeling the need to add that he was 14 or something, drove me crazy. Absolutely wouldn't have been permitted to play Dragon Age under this Minority Report shit.

Also, I'm immediately thinking of that terf dating app that constantly bans cis women.

I figured out a simple hack, just spread your ass cheeks and have it scan your a-hole that's wrinkly and it'll think you're old. ez gg

Let's shove the kinect back in there again and charge people standing in the room with the cost of the movie being watched because piracy

I'm guessing Kinect/VR cameras on consoles. I guess you could probably have your phone sync with the console and it asks you to verify your face before the game turns on the console and the phone with some custom app interfaces with the console.

I'm reading their proposal and so far it seems to just be COPPA-related. Are video game companies being pressured at all to curb minors playing T/M/A rated game

Yoti was founded in 2014 with a mission to become the world’s most trusted identity platform–enabling people to prove who they are and how old they are. Yoti’s solutions span identityverification, age assurance, digital identity and e-signature solutions. One of Yoti’s coreinnovations is the use of facial analysis for age estimation. Its Facial Age Estimation solution isused by regulated industries as well as gaming, retail, toy brands and public offices, to estimatethe age of their visitors in order to tailor the user experience or to help organizations comply with the law.

So I get why Yoti wants this. I do not get what the ESRB is getting out of this other than maaaaybe regulating harder to stop people from maybe seeing elected governments as better regulators of video game ratings.

I'm sorry, how do they plan to implement something like this? Privacy violations aside, I don't know how they would even do such a thing.

They probably don't know either, and will hire a bunch of consultants or turn it over to the espionage ghouls to make up a solution that is somehow even more cruel and invasive.

God they really will not relent until every child in the world is confined to a temperature controlled padded pod that reads their mind to assure they only think thoughts amenable to whatever the current ruling clique is.

I don't expect it to materialize at a serious scale. It sounds like a payout to the company hawking the technology, Yoti.

Absolutely uncritical support to the cracking scene and our comrade FitGirl in their struggle against the gaming bourgeoisie.

Wasn't there a plan with that to do like DRM when watching home media? Like this movie won't play if there are > X people in the room?

Ghoulish shit.

It's funny to see all the say they want to abolish public schools because "education should be the parent's job, the state shouldn't get involved." and then come crying to the state to get involved with raising their kid to ensure their views are never challenged.

I said it before and I'll say it again, is the anti-fun country. Even if you're a so-called 'model citizen', there's nothing to do except go online and smugly look down on minorities and brag about how perfect you are, and then call those same minorities "elitist" for thinking that you're not an infallible deity.

People must be protected from violent imagery, but only in the ultra-specific setting of private entertainment in the home. On the news and literally everywhere else is okay. You just can't do it where the State can't watch.