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[Machiavellian]

Tober said:

Machiavellian said:

You are not telling me anything I do not know, what I am saying is why would Law makers and corporations need a law to get your data when there are so many ways that data is already giving out and freely sold between corporations already.  Why institute something that bring focus to something they already get for free with no effort.  

If they wanted to have easy access to your data, then instead of making laws, they would just deregulate instead.  Much easier to deregulate and allow unfettered tracking of individuals online than making some obscure law based on children access to adult content.

Because it's not just winning on one topic. The government wins because more control (a.k.a. we know best what is good for you). Corporations win because making money. implementing and sustaining a government mandate like this is not gratis. There is a business model here. And guess what. As a gamer you will be paying one way or the other.

That is not winning because once the government gets involved then you see a slew of regulations start to drop and you cannot control all of it.  People think its easy to regulate governments and laws by corporations but its not.  Corporations never want anything regulated and I have never seen any corporations trying to get any laws passed for regulations.  If a law is passed they would want the least amount of regulation as possible because it never makes sense having to jump through a whole lot of hoops and red tape to get things done.

Also what corporations would want any of this age verification laws.  You would have to sell me on who does it actually benefit and what industry and why because for the life of me I cannot think of one.  All your data is already out there on the web and all the data you use to access anything is there for the picking without any need for some age verification.