Of course parents not taking appropriate precautions doesn’t absolve the companies of responsibility. Unethical behavior is unethical behavior, even if there are things consumers can do to protect themselves from it. After all, the precautions wouldn’t be necessary if the companies didn’t engage in this behavior in the first place, so these precautions aren’t really solutions only mitigations.
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lepinkainen@lemmy.world 1 week agoStupid parents give their kids unlimited access to mobile payments.
It’s like basic parental controls are a black art only few master
TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 1 week ago
PunchingWood@lemmy.world 1 week ago
And because of them a bunch of games on Steam and other platforms are banned in my country. I occasionaly check SteamDB and see a popular game or new release and I can’t find it in the store because apparently it is blocked in my country.
Wish there was a way for us to just see all games, because this usually involves games that have lootboxes that are entirely optional and I will never buy, but because some undisciplined kids and terrible parents the rest of us have to pay the price for it.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 1 week ago
To be fair, basic skills for being a human seem to have become a black art that only few can master. So expecting them to be responsible parents is actually probably a bit too high of an expectation. This isn’t an excuse to be a bad parent, of course.