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[-] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 61 points 1 month ago

All this says to me is dont buy from microsoft if you're in Australia.

[-] DampSquid@feddit.uk 58 points 1 month ago

All this says to me is dont buy from microsoft.

[-] sompreno@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 month ago

Probably a matter of time until the other major console brands follow suit

[-] XLE@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago

Precisely this. Even if you hate Microsoft, you do not want this to be normalized.

[-] Dookieman12@piefed.social 10 points 1 month ago

All this says to me is don't be in Australia

[-] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 38 points 1 month ago

Maybe this will make people start caring about privacy, but I think they will just put up with anything, like they always have.

[-] Dookieman12@piefed.social 10 points 1 month ago

It's AU. They say "yes daddy" to every authoritarian, then act holier than thou and call other places a "shithole country" when they won't lick the boots too.

[-] donk@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I agree with the bit about us accepting too much nanny state stuff but I don’t know if we think we’re better than everyone else. Just the poms, the yanks, our neighbours and… oh I see it now.

[-] Zarobi@aussie.zone 21 points 1 month ago

Please forget about Steam, please forget about Steam, please forget about Steam

[-] Baggie@lemmy.zip 22 points 1 month ago

I'm gonna be so annoyed, my account is literally 20 years old.

[-] pycorax@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 month ago

Has already been the case in Singapore but they require us to login to our digital government ID on some external vendor's site which no one sure if they're even reliable or not. It's easy to work around by changing your account's region though.

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 month ago

no one sure if they’re even reliable or not

it's a good assumption that they are not

[-] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago

Fuck don't suggest anything to Malaysian government

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 month ago

At that point, yeah, piracy is not merely action against subverted intellectual property laws but action against government restrictions on civil liberties.

It also means consuming restricted content is an act of political resistance.

[-] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Well, for me, when this comes to the U.S.A., that's when I stop using the technology unless I get my hands on pirated software and alternate hardware.

I'm quite capable of walking away from all this. Heck, I swore off video games for 20 years because World of Warcrack was eating my life, so I have receipts.

[-] Malyca@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

Smart. Nobody should be giving palantir data voluntarily.

[-] daggermoon@piefed.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It seems she won't be right.

[-] lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

presumably based on age of your email or Xbox account

So, if we take for example, someone getting an Xbox and account at 17. With this in place, the least invasive way means that players won't be allowed to buy or play an R18 game until they turn reach 35+

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