EU petition to stop publishers from intentionally destroying games with kill switches.

  • drspod@lemmy.ml
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    Information on Personal Data:

    To sign, you must provide a set of personal data, which is required by the authorities of your country for verification purposes. Specific measures are in place to ensure the protection of your data. See our privacy statement.

    Perhaps if signing a petition didn’t require doxxing yourself then more people would sign.

    I realize that it’s to prevent fake signatures and allow verification that the signatories are residents of the jurisdiction under petition, but this method inherently creates a sampling bias.

    In the same vein as age verification, we need a solution for digital attestation that preserves anonymity and privacy. There are some initiatives in this direction, so perhaps we will get there some day.

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      Can you help me understand which political petitions meant to document real constituent desires don’t require doxxing yourself? I don’t believe I’ve ever participated in any citizens initiative that didn’t require personal information.

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        There aren’t any, thats the point I’m making. Petitions produce sample bias that excludes the opinions of people who don’t want their legal name and home address printed on a document that might get passed around God-knows-where.

        • markovs_gun@lemmy.world
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          Oh no the government might know my name and address! Surely they don’t already know that from me living in society, voting, and paying taxes!