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Cool, now apply this scrutiny to Facebook, Instagram, video games, board games, card games, sports, my job, and capitalism in general.

Every day I'm asked to do tasks for rewards. It's gotten to the point that if I don't, I can't survive.

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You'll be relieved to learn that the EU regulates much of what you just listed.

The EU doesn't even understand half the things listed.

When people say that they usually mean that the EU does not treat these issues as they think they rather should. Which is a matter of policy rather than comprehension naturally: all the things above are rather pedestrian concepts.

They aren't pedestrian and that's how you get ignorant people in charge of things they don't understand. Just because you saw a video of minecraft or played mario bros 30 years ago does not mean you now understand video games let alone know how to regulate it. Even if someone talked to some experts in the industry and received some data, that does not mean they now understand that field enough to make a valuable contribution.

The EU is not a dictatorship so decisions aren't made by one (incompetent or brilliant) person. And frankly gaming is not quite quantum field theory: if you can call yourself an expert at it so can thousands people working in the government really.

Telling me it is not quantum field theory lets me know that you know nothing about either thing. Making decisions that affect entire industries that consist of many types of people is incredibly complex. I guess we will live with incompetent midwits making decisions for a little while more.

For sure that's incredibly complex, that's why they have committees, expert panels and standards bodies. Even about dumb shit such as gaming.

I think apps like TikTok are designed and built like gambling apps to manipulate behavior - particularly young people - into staying engaged with the platform. That type of psychological manipulation should be regulated when children are involved, or at the very least transparent about it. TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, all of them should be closely examined.

Tasks for rewards to survive - I believe it’s called “work”.

Yeah and I don't like it. Someone should do something about that.

Do you really need someone to tell you that the government heavily regulates employment?

You aren't entitled to what other people produce. If you don't like working you can live in the woods and not work a single day of your life again, but bear the consequences. No one owes you anything.

The EU is applying similar scrutiny to other social networks as well.

Your comment reeks of whataboutism. If we need to apply the same scrutiny to everything at the same time we wouldn't be able to do anything at all.

That's my point. Just ban tiktok because it's Chinese government spyware already. All this think about the children stuff is just beating around the bush.

Language games are necessary for the loyal subjects not to become horrified about nakedness of things.

Upholding democracy, protecting human rights, etc all of this is very useful to maintain mental health of the subjects.

Pointing out hypocrisy is legitimate. It has become fashionable for hypocrites to seek refuge behind: “oh that’s whataboutism , does not count.”