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Stop Killing Games has exceeded 1.3 million signatures! (programming.dev)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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Link for those who've yet to see it/sign the petition: https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

An image of the Stop Killing games European Citizen' Initiative. It claims it's open, with 1,309,381 signatures with an overdrive counter of 77%.
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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

Huh thats stupid. You would think they have a database which they check a hash against at least or something. For the user it would look like everything is excepted but in the backend they would only count the valid ones so you cant brute force it. But of course governments never think about stuff like this so why did i expect it was like this.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    There probably isn't a central database to verify against so the solution would be to come up with a distributed system where each country implements its own verification process and then implement a standardized messaging structure that all countries would have to use. It would be a significant development effort to make something like that and it probably wouldn't pay off to if it was made just for citizens initiative. Considering in the last 5 years there has been only 4 (5 if we also count SKG) initiatives that have passed 1 mil it's probably cheaper to collect all the signatures and then have each country verify the dataset that relates to their country.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I mean countries should have such systems in place. It would make a lot of things easier.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Countries probably have something in place that would easily verify a person but it would still take extra effort to make that something work with the system is managing the initiative counting.

    It's simply cheaper to collect all the votes and then do the verification rather than develop integration to verify in real time.

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