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If we remove that it become: funnelling a market towards the further consumption of your product. I.e. marketing

And if a company's marketing campaign is found to be indirectly responsible for a kid shooting up a grocery store, I'm sure we'll be seeing a repeat of this with that company being the one with a court case being brought against them, what even is this argument?

Ohh u didnt report someone ur also guilty cant see any problems with this.

That's... not what this is about, though?

“However, plaintiffs contend the defendants’ platforms are more than just message boards,” the court document says. “They allege they are sophisticated products designed to be addictive to young users and they specifically directed Gendron to further platforms or postings that indoctrinated him with ‘white replacement theory’,” the decision read.

This isn't about mandated reporting, it's about funneling impressionable people towards extremist content.

If an "official act" is anything that happens while they're in office, Biden should just shoot Trump on his last day in office. Following this argument, he'd be immune to prosecution.

A denial of criminal immunity would incapacitate every future president with de facto blackmail and extortion while in office, and condemn him to years of post-office trauma at the hands of political opponents.

It's funny that this hasn't happened in 45 presidencies, yet his argument is that it's suddenly going to be a problem for every future president...

This isn't Steam specific; this applies to almost every digital marketplace. Yeah, it sucks, but there's some things you just have to accept. When's the last time you bought a physical copy of a PC game?

They could have made it an AU only feature, though, and didn't, to their credit.

Family Sharing enables you to play games from other family members' libraries, even if they are online playing another game. If your family library has multiple copies of a game, multiple members of the family can play that game at the same time.

Well this is exceptionally exciting. This potentially solves 100% of my complaints with Family Sharing as it exists currently.

Also, it's not like she's paying for her mortgage in addition to whatever she was doing previously (presumably rent). The mortgage payment replaces your rent payment.

The problem is that people are so used to the notion that everything is “free” that many are convinced that online services should always be free and balk at the idea of paying for anything.

A huge part of that is that most people don't consider privacy concerns to be a cost. All they factor into their evaluation is whether it costs them actual money.

He sure does.

You leave Martin out of this.

The district attorney initiated forward-looking steps to "prevent future harm, encourage empathy, and build stronger communities free of hate."

They include a curriculum around hate and bullying being delivered to the Southwick school community and a partnership with the attorney general's office to create a program that addresses and remediates the harmful forces of bigotry, racism and bullying in schools.

I appreciate that the response, at least, wasn't "Crucify these specific kids and ignore the underlying symptoms".

Honestly, if it was a union of indie developers making this argument, it would hold a lot more weight than Tim Fucking Sweeney making it. "Valve's cut is too big, smaller developers get screwed" isn't an invalid argument in and of itself; if Epic put all the money they're pouring into exclusivity agreements with developers and shit into trying to make EGS have some level of feature parity (for end users) with Steam, they might have more success. As it stands, they're just trying to strong-arm players into using their (much shittier) platform and it's turned a lot of folks, me included, vehemently against giving them the slightest chance.