It seems like a kind of a paradox that online video games are held accountable for servers that they have nothing to do with, but meanwhile a browser can be truly open and doesn’t have to employ any restrictions like age verification, or banning ips? Not even China goes after the browser level.

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    what restrictions are you talking about?

    chances are, those are restrictions Microsoft is demanding. (for example, child safety. or “child safety”, considering gates is a pedo.) It uses game files that are controled and licensed by Microsoft.

    The browser on the other hand is an application that uses a standard, open, protocol to take information and turn it into a readable page with all the content you like to see.

    It’s not the browser’s fault that pornhub uses the same protocol as, I dunno… whatever biblestory website evangelicals think is “safe”. (do Song of Solomon next!)

    Regardless, Microshit owns Minecraft, and they get to decide what restrictions it has on it.

    • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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      22 hours ago

      There is also ability for external filtering.

      It is easy to buy additional software to restrict websites. That equipment doesn’t work for most video games.