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The ESRB wants to start using facial recognition to check people's ages (www.pcgamer.com)

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The FTC is now seeking public feedback on the ESRB's proposal.

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[–] Homeschooled316@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"What sense does it make to forbid selling to a 13-year-old boy a magazine with an image of a nude woman, while protecting a sale to that 13-year-old of an interactive video game in which he actively, but virtually, binds and gags the woman, then tortures and kills her?”

Justice Clarence Thomas, somehow arguing the opposite of what you’d think this paragraph means.

[–] BiscuitCollection@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

According to Wikipedia, that quote is from Justice Stephen Breyer but yeah I got a chuckle out of your comment.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Entertainment_Merchants_Association

[–] Homeschooled316@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Yep, my original source got it wrong, confusing the two dissenting opinions

[–] curiosityLynx@kglitch.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I could see him take that to argue either way with no clear winner. Which direction was it?

[–] TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I assume he wanted to ban both sexual content and fictional violence.