https://www.stopkillinggames.com/ If you have time to complain, you have time to sign! Not EU citizen? Then spread the word!

If you're gonna be a troll you can at least be good at it.

Who is "Ross"?

Just logged in via CSAM, didn't need to take out my eID or enter INSZ.

if the game you bought isnt really yours, than sailing the high seas isnt really theft. I love the EU for their consumer rights agendas.

I'm actually going to remove my downvote and reserve judgement until a response. What games do you play, and what games do you think this movement is targeting?

from Friends obviously

VideogameRoos is a youtube guy who really pioneered this whole movement. He has a series devoted to really old niche games that is really interesting (Ross' Game Dungeon). I'd highly reccomend looking into his standard content and the don't kil games afterward.

Looks like it’s time for the reverse engineering folks to come in.

... dafuq?

It is. There's no system to check if signature exists in your country's ID list. Random number generator +random name generator is enough to "validate" the vote.

> Edit: Also his voiceover halflife series is likely the best protagonist commentary series ever. It is. hard to say why but it's quite compelling.

Huh thats stupid. You would think they have a database which they check a hash against at least or something. For the user it would look like everything is excepted but in the backend they would only count the valid ones so you cant brute force it. But of course governments never think about stuff like this so why did i expect it was like this.

https://www.csam.be/en/about-csam.html

No, no no. You have to input your name, address, and various ways of establishing your EU member state, such as an EU electronic visa/id, or your specific EU state drivers liscence or tax id or some such, and the form makes it very obvious you must actually be an EU citizen. Examples: Poland  Portugal  Estonia  Its possible there could be spam or accidental/malformed inputs... but if you are putting fake info into an official government portal, especially en masse, thats potentially a number of crimes, and if its a genuine mistake from an EU citizen, it seems like there is a review process where people will be contacted and allowed to fix up their info. Also, technically, there are a few countries with more lax submission requirements, such as the Netherlands, likely due to more intense personal privacy laws... but its not like this system is not logging people's IPs, not like they won't be taking that into acount. This isn't a change.org petition, its an official EU government portal for a core process of democracy. Knowingly falsifying info on this is again, potentially a large number of crimes, as if you say lied on voting registration, or lied to Social Security or your US state's unemployment assistance system.

Wow, what an unfortunate coincidence. TIL.

Likely never, the intiative is not pushing for retroactive legal changes, it is pushing for new regulations / legal standards going forward.

Many US states have official citizens initiatives systems, but not on the Federal level, no.

There probably isn't a central database to verify against so the solution would be to come up distributed system where each country implements its own verification process and then implements a standardized messaging structure that all countries would have to use. It would be a significant development effort to make something like that and it probably wouldn't pay off to if it was made just for citizens initiative. Considering in the last 5 years there has been only 4 (5 if we also count SKG) initiatives that have passed 1 mil it's probably cheaper to collect all the signatures and then have each country verify the dataset that relates to their country.

No, not for the vast majority of EU States, no, it requires an actual official government id like the EU eID, your tax ID number, something like that.