Online Safety and the Regulation of Gaming Platforms and Services

About this Paper As part of the DPL, the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) organised working group meetings between May and July 2024, on the topic of online safety and the regulation of gaming platforms and services. [...] This misogynistic movement was initiated in 2014 in reaction to a woman reporter’s allegedly The main portion of this brief provides an overview of unethical coverage of the gaming community and regulatory frameworks in the field of online safety and quickly led to targeted misogynist attacks against how they may apply to gaming platforms and related women involved in gaming, and then expanded to. [...] Online Safety and the Regulation of Gaming Platforms and Services 13 Typology of Gaming Platforms and Services Today’s online gaming environment consists of a This first typology demonstrates the diversity in the large range of companies and different types of types of companies, services and platforms involved in platforms and services. [...] Online Safety and the Regulation of Gaming Platforms and Services 24 The Senate version would require these covered likely to access” to “consider the best interests of platforms to take “reasonable measures” in the operation children when designing, developing, and providing” of their platforms to “prevent and mitigate”: that service, which would include gaming and gaming- adjacent companies.119. [...] Appropriate Design Code in the US in 2022, which The TCO applies to Hosting Service Providers (HSPs), required “all online products and services [children] are which are defined as storing content at user request and Online Safety and the Regulation of Gaming Platforms and Services 25 disseminating it to the public.