Many things can be true at once. They can have done good things, they can various opinions on topics, they can be busy with larger matters, and they can be corrupt!
Humans are really good at doing lots of things.
Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 3 days agoYes, those are the same people. Not the same people will write the whole bill but the same people will have to move it through all the legislative process and vote on it.
Yes, EU has done many improvements. That’s why I think it’s silly that everyone says they are corrupt just because they didn’t agree to work on video games. It’s like people can only see one thing at a time.
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 days ago
So they pushed GDPR through against the lobbying for Meta and Google, they pushed ICE cars ban against the lobbying or auto industry, the passed DMA/DSA against the lobbying of all the biggest corporations but on video games they folded immediately because EA and Xbox told them to. Yeah, I’m sure that’s what happened.
jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
As much as I liked the initiative, it was always on shaky ground because games aren’t needed… now, if we could have tied it to the environment somehow (eg. hardware waste), or to the right of education (eg. safeguarding access to learning material), it would have stood a better chance.
Kjell@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah, EU was probably thinking that it is a bunch of young adults which wants to continue play their favorite games. Good for them but not something worthy of their time. Personally, I think it is worth to do improvements to things that are not necessary but I can understand from their point that they want to focus on other things. With that being said I have a hard time to believe that everyone at EU needs to work on crucial projects all the time.