Josh Hawley, the junior senator from Missouri and currently the youngest member serving in the Senate, has made a name for himself from going after the tech giants of Silicon Valley. He has butted heads with Facebook. He wants to make it more difficult for websites to track users and collect their data. He thinks Instagram and Twitter are parasites that should disappear.
Hawley's also not too keen on loot boxes and pay-to-win microtransactions in video games and, yesterday, he introduced a bill that would effectively ban them from all video games distributed in the United States. Hawley says the bill is meant to protect minors, but when you look at the actual language of it, it's pretty evident everything from "E for Everyone" to "M for Mature" will fall under its restrictions.
The bill takes aim at two types of games. The first type are games for a general audience. This covers any title where the publisher or distributor has constructive knowledge that some users are under the age of 18. The second are minor-oriented games, which the bill broadly defines as:
from Destructoid http://bit.ly/2VZnYBe
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