I largely agree, but the interests have gotten misaligned. Back then it was the threat of regulation which changed things up, I think the governments should do a little more of that.
Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery
tlou3please@lemmy.world 4 days agoIn fairness, I would much rather that than governments directly controlling access, creating an additional form of direct censorship.
Not saying what we have now is great or anything though. I’m not exactly defending it.
tb_@lemmy.world 4 days ago
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Eeeeh, at least then there would theoretically be public accountability. The FCC has limited censorship power that they’re generally unobjectionable with.
I’m honestly more concerned with the censorship from private enterprises than with government consorship currently. Less accountability and less recourse.
It also really only becomes censorship if the rating system is used to prohibit speech. If we instead made it more like the nutritional guidelines on food it could instead give more of a content breakdown than setting an arbitrary age.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 4 days ago
That’s basically why the ESRB was created, it was “Self-Regulate, or we’re just going to ban 80% of games on the market as a scapegoat for Columbine!”
JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 days ago
Luigi Mangione played Among Us, an assassination game!