There is still 10 days left. Even though the stretch goals were met, you can still sign.
If you haven’t already and you live in the EU (they will check), you can sign here: https://www.stopkillinggames.com/
Is it in the game vendors’ interest to do that? No. And they have more money than the gamers.
So… Cute petition, but sadly you can be absolutely certain it ain’t going nowhere.
Behold, an intellectual cuck.
That’s a cute set of downvotes you got there.
Some of them may be invalidated, keep dispensing them people!
Apple didn’t want to switch to USB-C, now they use it. Almost all manufacturers didn’t want replaceable batteries, in a short while they’ll have to. The EU, despite not being perfect, is a functioning entity and therefore can force vendors regardless of their desire.
Apple was already using USB C everywhere else. They were using it rather early. You can debate about how fast they should kill lightning after its introduction (before USB-C was finalized), but the EU didn’t single handedly make Apple consider USB-C on iPhones.
found piratesoftwares lemmy account…
People said that about slave traders, child labour, asbestos manufacturing…
Ok unplugging servers kinda sucks but it’s nowhere near as bad as the things you mentioned lol. It’s like this survey that voted EA as the worst company.
All famously solved by an online petition
To be clear, this is not an “online petition”. This is the beginning of a defined legal process in the EU.
Which EU law stemming from this process is your favourite?
The entire premise of your comment is absurd, but let’s assume for a moment we really do live in a world where a legal process can’t be used unless it’s successfully been used for widespread change before; what other action do you suggest people should take?
A boycott of the worst companies. I’ve seen lots of people commenting they’re never buying an Ubisoft game again under pretty much every article in relation to them. Perhaps boycotts haven’t worked in the past but this seems to have enough support and momentum that it could have a real direct impact. Recently, boycotts have been pretty impactful as the world has stopped buying US products and within the US, conservative groups have influenced mamy companies with boycott and social media campaigns against companies. It’s also something that all supporters globally can participate in rather than everyone just hoping a European law might affect products purchased elsewhere.
The petition was a great way to gauge support, but I feel like people are going all in on its success and when the EU parliament likely issues its “we take consumer protection seriously which is why we already have the best laws in the world and don’t need to change anything” statement, people are just going to act defeated. There’s going to be a doomer post about how the EU parliament is corrupt and piratesoftware is the devil that gets 1000 upvotes and then that’ll be it instead of using the support and momentum in a more direct and impactful way.
There are lots of ways to make a change. It shouldn’t be all in on a single petition and that’s it. That’s not how social and political changes happen.
GDPR is pretty neat
It is! It wasn’t created because of an online petition!
While it wasn’t a citizens initiative, certain countries did let the people vote on if they thought it was a good idea.
If you’re only interested in citizens initatives, here are some examples:
- Right2Water
The first citizens initiative that passed, which led to a lot of things regarding the availability of water - Stop vivisection
- Save the bees
- Stop finning
along with all the other answered initiatives.
- Right2Water
Oh I don’t know… how about banning glyphosate, an incredibly dangerous pesticide, which is now gone from EU produce but still plaguing many countries in the rest of the world? And how about some clean water to go with that salad? Because the Clean Water Directive received major updates as a direct result of collecting 1.80 million signatures.
Oh I don’t know… how about banning glyphosate,
Glyphosate isn’t banned in the EU. From the EU website: “Glyphosate is currently approved as an active substance in the EU until 15 December 2033”.
There was a petition to ban it, but the response was “On the first aim, to ‘ban glyphosate-based herbicides’, the Commission concluded that there are neither scientific nor legal grounds to justify a ban of glyphosate, and will not make a legislative proposal to that effect.”
the Clean Water Directive received major updates as a direct result of collecting 1.80 million signatures.
You might mean the Drinking Water Directive, and 1.6 million signatures.
I see some press releases on updates, but I can’t find anything outside of government websites saying things have improved. I’d imagine if this was a big deal there’d be news stories on it.
While the EU didn’t enact laws directly due to the petition it did create political interest, and laws, that have improved both issues
I’m not an EU citizen so I’m not politically informed enough to answer that.
While it’s easy to be pessimistic about this. This is one of the few options to make actual change. Leaving thing as they are is a worse situation since it means that companies like Ubisoft can and will destroy the games which we own.
Will there be resistance? Yes Ubisoft is already stated their opposition to it.)
But it’s not up to companies like Ubisoft for how the EU makes it’s laws, it’s up to the EU itself. When there is potentially 1.4 million people in Europe telling you to “stop killing games” it’s going to be hard to tell them no.
