They hire like two lobbyists with 100k of splurge money and this won’t pass, for sure.
If voting or filling a petition changed anything they would make it illegal.
SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Hope every gaming company out there is sweating buckets at this. This is a matter of customer rights.
Korkki@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
The EU is not swayed by this kind of thing easily.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 22 hours ago
America brain, Its like they think everyone is in the same dystopia as them.
kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
You know the guy who started this petition is an American, right?
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 1 day ago
By the way, the left could have done this for any number of issues in the past but refused to.
Like how hard would it have been if everyone who showed up to a George Floyd protest instead donated to some fund that then went to paying a lobbyist/think tank to work for them in Washington to change laws and make sure the police officers and department actually saw justice.
Korkki@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
donated to some fund that then went to paying a lobbyist/think tank to work for them
It would be more effective to get a quarter of 1.4 million people organized with united demands and on the streets of Brussels with the actual risk of projecting threat violence on EU bureaucrats, then StopKillingGames or any petition or demand would have a much better chance of passing. At that point you wouldn’t even need collect any names before hand :) All the voting, all the petitions all the representation only exists to act as an filter and push the little people people and their little people idea’s far away from actual power as possible.
I’ll be positively surprised if this passes, but I really really really doubt it. Too much money at stake here just for the sake of having some pro consumer common sense.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The EU has gotten us pro consumer common sense a number of times already, like with iPhones and the GDPR.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There is no way that you believe people showing up in streets would do anything lol
That’s what the powerful hope we do. It’s the most useless action possible. It’s like trying to boil water by breathing hot air on it. You’ll get tired way before you get any boiling.
4am@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
We don’t want them to sweat, we just want them to do the right thing by their customers
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
These two things overlap under capitalism, as doing right by your customers is only required if not doing right by your customers affects your profits.
We definitely want them to sweat.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The only way I see that happen is having the tools and ability to pirate any and all media like we had back in the napster days. That’s the only time I’ve ever seen these companies scared. A petition I don’t think will do much. Plus not only is there this issue. There is also the issue of groups now targeting the way funding works like on steam. Payment processes are now being used to apply pressure where certain groups do not like the content.
AgentRocket@feddit.org 21 hours ago
This isn’t just any regular change.org petition, that can be ignored. It’s an official partition based on EU rules, where EU parliament is forced by law to listen to the initiators and talk about the topic, when it passes.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Ok but is there any group or lobbyists who are advocating or will this just be a petition sent to them which they can just ignore.