Comment on Th EU iniative for Stop Killing Games has reached the goal of 1 million signatures!!

• zerofk@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oddly, the EU one just has a checkbox that you need to check to confirm that you haven’t signed before. I’m guessing removal of duplicates happens only after closing, along with other data validation.

  I thought this strange at first too, but I think it’s because of the disparate identification methods in different countries. If everyone had a digital ID card instant checking would be doable, but note it probably isn’t.

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  • Opisek@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s not true. It depends on the country. In certain countries it will tell you if your identification number had been used before.

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    • zerofk@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Interesting! I tried from a country that has an eID so it should be trivial to weed out duplicates, yet I got that checkbox.

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      • Opisek@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Maybe it’s a self report feature >.<

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  • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    For the UK one it’s just tied to your email address to prevent duplicates, and you just input your name and physical address which will be used to confirm you’re actually a citizen.

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• kuhli@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wait, what happened with the first one?

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  • Burnedspaghetti@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Parliament disbanded iirc

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    • Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      After giving such a bad answer to it that some other part of the government stepped in and said the answer was dramatically insufficient.

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m not surprised it got a bad answer though. The government was completely dysfunctional by that point (and had been well over a year), I wouldn’t be surprised if it was just some random civil servant who was just told to weave a fig leaf at it.

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