ScarletRain (#29399) Compulsive disorders and gambling addictions are crippling in adults. How the hell you you expect literal children to deal with it??? They can't. Currently technology is evolving and advancing faster than a lot of adults can keep up with, this means their knowledge on parental controls and online safety is often outdated. This makes it easy for for a lot of corporations like EA and Google to target children; children with parents who don't realize how easy it is for their child to get their card information without even getting their hands on their physical card thanks to online convinces.

I specifically mention Google here because they were, despite child privacy protection laws in place, were deliberately collecting data on anyone of a certain age and showing them targeted ads. They were doing this because children are more susceptible to these aggressive tactics than adults are. In fact, studies show that children 13 years and younger, can barely tell the difference between a show and an advertisement. It's all entertainment to them. Thanks to backlash and the law coming down on them Google was forced to stop doing this. But if this case shows anything, just because a corporation gets away with something, doesn't mean what their doing is legal.

In case of EA and their infamous "surprise mechanics", they're a major part of the reason why under age gambling laws are now being re-evuated because of the deliberate targeting of young children to earn major bucks.

But yeah, blame the parents, not the fact corporations try to keep adults in the dark on how they can protect their children from them, or the fact they execute such aggressive tactics towards them.

Why the ever living **** are yiu guys even trying to normalize this to begin with is what I don't understand