more police brutality in the US

I see that name, 'Baitcast'.

https://nos.nl/artikel/2228041-populaire-games-overtreden-gokregels.html (article in Dutch)

Dutch gambling authorities declare certain forms of game lootboxes to be gambling and as such, illegal. They have to change their format within eight weeks or face fines up to ~840k euros, or even being banned from sale in the Netherlands. Other forms are given a 'stern warming' and are -requested- to change.

Hmm nice

I was kinda hoping they would do this in belgium too

At least for minors

Well, there's movements like this all over europe

I doubt its gona happen anytime soom here thb, notbthe way the elections look

Where is here

belgium my lass

the part of me angry about shitty business practices is happy about that, but my dislike of government regulation is pissed about that.

I entirely agree, but my 'they brought it on themselves, the filthy greedy fucks' wins.

I never get why government regulation is supposed to be a bad thing... but then again, i don‘t live in a socialist country 😁

@I AM ERROR come to Europe

here, you can only make a company if you get paid from the government or from the EU

I am

where exactly then? 🤔

I'm in Portugal

Between denmark and austria 😁

Or between france and poland? No matter... the country with the idiot chancellor 😁

it doesn't surprise me that someone from Europe doesn't see it as a problem, as there's nothing else around here

Falko is a german

regulation is everywhere

I usually say "come to Europe" for americans that don't see regulation as a problem, and they understand it when they see it

explaining it to an European is more difficult though

regulation is only good when it doesn't punish people,

Regulating companies that then have to compensate by cutting people off is not such a thing

Regulation as a form of Communism is another problem too

the Carbon Tax for example

yes, because that punishes the people

it punishes everyone, it's an easy way for global taxation as an excuse

yes, and in order to justify the excuse, they'll say its to "coerce" people to switch to better alternatives

gonna be fun though when they overregulate

fyi, Amsterdam is about to be bent over

screw Europe, I'm leaving 😂

I don't see how this will get any better in the near future

and my hopes on UK with brexit went down the drain too

Good idea.

Europe is a lost cause.

@Falko#1083 because it adds cost to entry for most markets (which makes creating new competing businesses harder), doesn't always do anything, is slow to react to changes in industries, and turns the government into a weapon larger corporations can use to stifle competition. Also the government is usually generally poor at doing much of anything and often regulations have a bad habit of having unintended collateral damage. In this example, for instance, why is it illegal? If a kid is playing these games and the parents let them, then its the parents fault for letting the kid gamble. If its an adult who is playing it, you have just declared that adults are apparently incapable of making wise decisions on their own not to buy these things and not to get addicted to gambling, which is basically saying "you are still just a kid, and the government is your parent".

In this instance... why is gambling not universally legal?

In general: i do not trust companies to not do shitty stuff if no one tells them not to do it.