Turkish government proposes legislation that would throttle Steam and other gaming platforms into unusability if they don't comply with demands for company data and content removal
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Companies that fail to deliver their information within five days would face escalating fines and up to 90% bandwidth restriction.

Hey everyone.

Government of Türkiye is pushing a new regulation that would force Steam, Epic, PlayStation etc. to appoint local representatives. If they refuse? The whole platform gets banned.

They also want full access to user data and the power to arbitrarily ban “risky” content. This isn’t just a Turkish thing, governments everywhere are trying to pull this crap. They think blocking platforms will control us? All they are doing is driving people straight to VPNs and piracy. If you make it impossible to buy games legally, we’ll just sail the high seas for free.

Thanks for the boost, I guess.

  • youmaynotknow@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    Encouraging is one thing, and of course any business wants to encourage their consumers to, we’ll, consume from them. However, that is not what Epic does, or Buggysoft, or any of the other giants. They FORCE their consumers into a whole lot of crap to FORCE money out of them. Encouraging and forcing are 2 completely different terms.

    • Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      1 hour ago

      Valve is definitely the best and the most innovative, particularly in contrast to Epic’s attempt to bribe their way to success and intentionally ignoring Linux, but even the best have their faults.