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What did this case have to do with any of that?

For me nothing , but has something to do with all this god saviour speech going on in the interview and in this thread, someone has to point out that, I thought

I’d have expected a journalist from better times, not accepting to be put there just to buttlick, to also ask questions not given by the press department, when the ceo said we want to make the world better, if they would have also stopped exploting kids in order to achieve that, but now newspapers are just external press departments

Seems everyone forgot that Epic was fined over half a billion by the FTC for “Violating Children's Privacy and Engaging in Dark Pattern Deception”.

https://gizmodo.com/epic-fortnite-gaming-ftc-dark-patterns-1...

They are as unethical as they come.

Let's not forget that Google isn't any better in that regard:

> Google Is Fined $170 Million for Violating Children’s Privacy on YouTube

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/technology/google-youtube...

> 15 privacy violation settlements amounting to roughly $1 billion between 2011 and 2023 with government regulators in various countries and private litigants

https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/23/google_childrens_priv...

Hardly agree, so all this corp speech about making the world better.. for their shareholders maybe, but lets ignore these CEOs acting as world saviors, how annoying

But in this case, they are doing a good thing.

Or do you believe that we should not acknowledge any positive actions from someone who has done something wrong in the past?

The case is about who gets what fraction of the microtransactions - Google or Epic (after accounting for the game dev's share).

I get that but what does that have to do with whether devs use microtransactions or not in their games? The kids will be subjected to them whether Epic or Google takes the lion’s share.

I am probably from a different time, before the advent of blogs, where journalists were not half-carpet/half-tongue creatures just reading a script and asking CEOs "what is your favourite playable character?", but this article is just a scandal, there is no question that upsets the CEO, I would bet everything that I have, that if 30 years ago a CEO would be in front of some journalist saying "We want to make the world better", the journalist would have pointed out the ways the CEO's own company makes the world worser

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