- cross-posted to:
- games@sh.itjust.works
- cross-posted to:
- games@sh.itjust.works
Cross-posted from “Stop Killing Games has exceeded 1.3 million signatures!” by @the16bitgamer@programming.dev in !games@sh.itjust.works
Link for those who’ve yet to see it/sign the petition: https://www.stopkillinggames.com/
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🎉!
What happens now?
The signature gathering period concludes at the end of this month, then signatures are validated over a period of three months, then consultation happens between stakeholders in the months after that, and then eventually a rule is developed.
consultation with stakeholders basically means making sure to cater to the corpos.
You might be thinking of shareholders.
Here, it means getting input from everyone involved, which does include game publisher corporations and their lobbyists but also includes technical experts like developers and also includes consumers and consumer rights advocates like Ross.
After some bureaucratic steps, it gets to the european commission and parliament, which will discuss it and write a response.
If the commission feels like it, it will make a law for the parliament to vote on.
careful: some of them were trolls entering bogus data to sign multiple times. not sure if they did it to help and are stupid or wanted to sabotage it.
I was all-in, because I misunderstood the phrase as meaning “prohibit all games in which people are killed”. Man, do I feel like an idiot, seems I signed the wrong petition:-(
