{"id":1940194,"date":"2023-05-29T06:17:10","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T10:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-conservative-gamers-could-lose-it-all\/"},"modified":"2023-05-29T06:23:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T10:23:24","slug":"how-conservative-gamers-could-lose-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-conservative-gamers-could-lose-it-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservative gamers risk losing everything."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhow-conservative-gamers-could-lose-it-all%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1940194&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Are Digital Games Threatening Our Property Rights?<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"DrQXAk1JhTKavodVCE2n8F4\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"ratio ratio-16x9\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How Conservative Gamers Could Lose It All\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XNlJDPG21xM?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember the Canadian trucker protests? The government froze their bank accounts to stop them from sticking around in downtown Ottawa. Many were horrified, but some cheered it on as an appropriate response to what they viewed as a fascist occupation. Since the money in the accounts theoretically didn\u2019t physically exist, it was all ones and zeros in a central banking computer, the government was able to get away with it and prevent the truckers from accessing their funds. Had they been able to use liquid cash in their hands, things may have gone differently.<\/p>\n<p>Now, imagine a potential universe where property rights are steadily destroyed by the proliferation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prageru-why-are-utilities-so-expensive\/\" title=\"PragerU: Why Are Utilities So Expensive?\">digital media<\/a>. You could lose access to something you legally purchased and should own the rights to based on the fact that whoever runs the service you\u2019re using to get the product removes your ability to access it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlan Wake II,\u201d the upcoming sequel to the 2010 horror sleeper hit, was recently announced as an Epic Games Store exclusive. Short of piracy, Epic Games has a monopoly on access to that game. This isn\u2019t to say that having digital games in and of itself is bad. But there was never this looming threat of losing access to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/states-push-to-rein-in-big-tech-as-federal-gears-grind-slow\/\" title=\"States Push to Rein in Big Tech as Federal Gears Grind Slow\">content based<\/a> on politics.<\/p>\n<h3>The Risk of Losing Property Rights<\/h3>\n<p>The government of Canada already proved it\u2019s willing to trample property rights to advance its ends. Why couldn\u2019t it happen here? In fact, some Democrats have already decided they want to start actively meddling in the digital arena with the potential to force companies into deplatforming people and losing them access to their property.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Sens. Michael Bennet and Peter Welch from Colorado and Vermont, respectively, introduced the Digital Platform Commission Act, a bill that would create a government body responsible for oversight over digital platforms. The bill defines the platforms this potential body would regulate as \u201c[Any] online service that serves as an intermediary facilitating interactions between consumers, or between consumers and entities offering goods and services, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-conservative-gamers-could-lose-it-all\/\" title=\"Conservative gamers risk losing everything.\">including content primarily generated<\/a> by algorithmic processes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That sounds like gaming platforms might be part of that, especially if those gaming platforms act as both storefront and launcher. But what\u2019s to stop someone from just downloading their games before they get in trouble with the feds?<\/p>\n<p>That would be a reasonable way to avoid this if the lion\u2019s share of modern games didn\u2019t require some form of connection to the internet and central servers in order to even work. If the government can force a private entity to block access to certain individuals, you don\u2019t have property rights anymore, you get to keep your property on the good graces of government actors. And private companies are more than willing to remove people based on total BS.<\/p>\n<h3>The Importance of Safeguards<\/h3>\n<p>Imagine you have a library of 100 games, and with a snap of the fingers, it\u2019s gone. No recourse, just, \u201cSorry, no access for you.\u201d This isn\u2019t meant to be a call to gamers to abandon digital games wholesale. What it\u2019s meant to be is a wake-up call that things could get bad really fast if there aren\u2019t safeguards in place to prevent rogue actors from taking away your property rights.<\/p>\n<p>Stronger forms of consumer protection to ensure gamers are able to guard their property rights are needed. Right now, there\u2019s just too much risk that someone who finds himself on the wrong side of the government or of a woke business can lose something he legally owns. And games would just be the start. We\u2019ve seen up north how far this can go, but it\u2019s already started here too.<\/p>\n<p>Come to think of it, maybe it\u2019s time to dig out those old physical game discs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">Douglas Blair is a producer and special correspondent with &#8220;O&#8217;Connor Tonight&#8221; on the Salem News Channel.<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-tags bdr-top-black mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-15 pt-md-45\">\n<ul class=\"list-unstyled d-flex flex-wrap align-items-center mb-0 mx-n10 p-0\">\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/gaming\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">gaming<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/playing-politics-with-doug-blair\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Playing Politics with Doug Blair<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/property\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">property<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/property-rights\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">property rights<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recalling the Canadian trucker protests, the government froze protesters&#8217; bank accounts to prevent them from staying in downtown Ottawa. 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