It was their idea, after all.

If they can't tie your account to your real identity somehow, then the whole thing is incredibly pointless.

We've already been over this with Germans getting pissed off at valve for "ignoring their laws" because valve refuses to store real identities of people on their servers, so they simply default to limiting Germans to only having access to games that the country determines acceptable to all ages. (Read: they're not ignoring any Doucheland laws, in fact they're fully compliant with them.) Then they say "oh but it's so easy, cigarette vending machines do it all the time!" (Yeah, apparently they still have those in Doucheland) without considering how that isn't going to work over the internet particularly well, not to mention it can totally be gamed.

And you think this "ban" will help how? All it can do is make things worse. Ever heard of the Streisand Effect? Works for kids too. And it will probably make it worse in other ways too, because now some kids will try to hide that they are active on social media. Oh, and the step towards a surveillance-society is much, much worse than what social media ever did to kids. And will continue to do.

When it is the gate to the world? I think you are underestimating kids. Also note that one kid figuring it out means the while school knows a few days later...

Ok, sorry. It did sound like "LOL, L2P!".

The point is really not when it happens, but that it happens. It may have been at 6 or 7, I played last probably 12 years ago or so.

Not in Europe, at least. That was declared immoral about 15 years ago.

https://youtu.be/-bMzFDpfDwc&t...

It's all good though because they observe the traffic signals with the devotion of a monk.

Maybe. But above of some level of fail and delusion you do not get access to the good layers anymore. Just look at Trump.

Well, IBM was basically a zombie 10 years ago. Something will have to stake them to put them out of their misery. Fully agree on Microsoft. Their stuff is only getting worse at this time and was pretty bad before. And their cloud got hacked several times now and had really, really bad vulnerabilities were nobody knows whether they were attacked or not (which makes things worse). They clearly do not have what it takes to survive with the increased need for IT security we have today.

Life is doing long-term damage. You need to stop listening to the propaganda.

I think this will turn out to be one giant lawsuit that, even if oracle wins, they'd still have already bet (and lost) the family farm. Blood from a rock.

You mean like an actual degree at an accredited university? In fact, I do have one, unlike you. The "auto-didact"ing I've only ever spoken about here was for one skill in particular, which has pushed my net worth into the seven digits. If that isn't validation, then feel free to tell me what makes you think you've done any better.

Indeed. Also shows that giants die slowly, unfortunately.

Yeah. China tried that. The UK too. Does not work. And to make things like the TOR browser illegal is not easy and subject to the Streisand-effect.

Simple: They will just learn ways around this ban. And then maybe the surveillance fascist assholes behind it will actually have taught them how to not get spied on later in life.

Or download the TOR browser for zero-configuration and free censorship circumvention. Like people in China do. Good thing too.