Spawnpoint, Episode 05: What Do We Want Governments to Do About Games?

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Spawnpoint, Episode 05: What Do We Want Governments to Do About Games?

A conversation, at times interrupted by a child, about what we actually want governments and regulators to do to make a parent's life easier to manage.

Patrick Klepek

Aug 15, 2024

Transcript

a laptop with a screen — Photo by Oberon Copeland @veryinformed.com on Unsplash

Spawnpoint returns, with Patrick Klepek (Crossplay) and Keza MacDonald (The Guardian) mulling over Turkey recently banning Roblox, increasing regulatory scrutiny over video games, and a growing panic among world governments about social media, to ask a seemingly simple question: what do we want them to do about? In the mailbag, we sympathize with a father simply trying to help his kid make reasonable purchases on an Xbox and having to fight through a load of red tape.

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Timestamps:

00:01:05 — Family vacations are complicated
00:10:08 — What today’s kids think of the games we played as kids
00:30:00 — The Big Question: What do we want governments to do to help us?
00:51:30 — Mailbag

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SPAWNPOINT

A podcast from Crossplay, a newsletter at the intersection of parenting and gaming, featuring longtime games reporters (and parents!) Patrick Klepek and Keza MacDonald, alongside a slew of insightful guests.

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