> I honestly don't know how television got such strict laws and regulations on children's programming, when viewed in comparison to the complete wild west, that is the modern app store.
With time and pressure.
Right now you have a fun new technology which people are still infatuated with, bought by one of the biggest companies to ever exist, in a country which openly permits business-to-politician payments through lobbying.
The wild west won't look anything like it does 50 years from now
No, it's because television was regulated as a tradeoff for using the limited resource of airwaves, but there isn't a limited resource of internet connections to game servers.
> in a country which openly permits business-to-politician payments through lobbying.
It's actually amazing how good of a tell this is. Nobody who says this ever knows anything about politics. I'm sorry, but politicians actually genuinely believe in most of the stuff they do you don't like, and so do their voters.
it's not like america is alone in this, they just have gigantic dollar figures. australia is a country which really struggles to move away from fossil fuels, and it also has gigantic coal-mining companies paying huge amounts to keep it that way
> it's not a secret that mega companies use huge amount of funds on lobbying to influence politics
Companies also spend billions on marketing. But there's no reason to believe either of these things actually /work/. And lobbying is not giving money to politicians.
With time and pressure.
Right now you have a fun new technology which people are still infatuated with, bought by one of the biggest companies to ever exist, in a country which openly permits business-to-politician payments through lobbying.
The wild west won't look anything like it does 50 years from now