[Frieren]

> spent virtually all of their time with the gaming industry lobby groups.

The industry should only be allowed to comment after the laws have been written and fulfill the goals of European citizens.

To ask the fox to guard the hen house is killing democracy.

[preisschild]

Thats what the EU parliament is for

[l23k4]

This is idiotic. "The industry" are also European citizens.

It's about balancing the interests of people who pay their rent and feed their children by selling games, and the interests of people who merely enjoy games.

Consulting only the group which enjoys games would be absurd to the point of being actively malicious.

[skotobaza]

But the commission did consult with the industry much more than with the initiative, they misrepresented the initiative and no balance was achieved...

[l23k4]

And your solution is to exclude the industry from the process? That's what Frieren is proposing, and specifically what I am attacking.

[skotobaza]

Of course not. I'd rather the commission talked equally to both parties involved instead of preferring the one with the stronger lobbying.

[monegator]

Hey! That's exactly what lobbyists against regulations would say!

[fvdessen]

Your mindset is why we got rid out of nuclear energy. Nuclear lobby bad, consumer lobby good. Consumer lobby didn't care that what they wanted was impossible (risk free free, carbon free, cheap energy) and angrily demanded by law things the industry couldn't provide, and got nothing as a result. It might very well be the case for this gaming law as well, that the result would have been less games in Europe as game producer would avoid a market that makes unprofitable demands.

[Tally]

There's also a massive anti-nuclear lobby, so hard to say on that one.

[tcfhgj]

risk free & cheap lol

[s1artibartfast]

SkG is a lobbyist too!

[roblabla]

It's a much smaller set of European citizens, and yet they have a much larger access to lawmakers. So no, it's not idiotic.