Studios would be banned from selling loot boxes to minors under new bill (2019)

About time, although I expect it to be heavily lobbied against by the games industry.

Given that a lot of people are sheltering at home right now and have some extra time, I'd encourage people to contact their Congressional representatives if they support this legislation.

> I expect it to be heavily lobbied against

Dan Geer (from this[1] talk):

>> The software houses will yell bloody murder the minute legislation like this is introduced, and any pundit and lobbyist they can afford will spew their dire predictions that "This law will mean the end of computing as we know it!"

>> To which our considered answer will be: "Yes, please! That was exactly the idea."

Proposed bills mostly don't go anywhere and so are mostly off topic here.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

This is an article from May 8, 2019.

Where do children get the money to buy this stuff?

Well my nephew stole my sisters debit card and charged $1600 to it. She called and got the charged reversed but HE GOT TO KEEP THE ITEMS. Until he traded his Fortnite account to someone at least.

holy crap!! if my kid did that, that would be an immediate end to all Fortnite for a few years.