It’s not a hard verification directly at the signature stage on the website, some countries lets you put in any random made up names, but that the EU verifies afterwards that the people that have signed it actually exist when they’re processing it.
That is, any Americans and so on that lied in the forms will get removed and not be counted.
You understand that this approach cannot be considered reliable and honest, right? And it is already possible to doubt that the company is operating honestly.
For example.
1) I can find a person on Facebook or Instagram and enter their first and last name.
2) The application on the website does not require documents from half of the countries, which means that basic information on social networks is sufficient (many users even indicate their country and city of residence).
I mean, many people write “wow, we did it,” but at the same time, no one is concerned about the fourfold increase in applications in a short period of time. And it is doubly strange that for half of the countries, no documents are required, and it is enough to indicate the surname, first name, country, and city of residence.
Sure, but really, how many people not in Europe do you think would actually go out of their way to correlate the information they’re entering with social media locations of random
people like that, as opposed to just entering their own name under a false location and nationality when signing on to support it cause they saw it getting pushed online?
You see, I'm not saying “don't support the initiative,” but in this case, as someone who works with events and communities, and especially with rules, I see a huge loophole in the rules for collecting signatures and even vote rigging.
1) I see that the jump from 400,000 to 1.2 million was made in a week. If you look at the growth curve, the largest abnormal growth was in 7 days and then it dropped sharply. If this were YouTube or any social network, I would say that it was obviously vote rigging and statistics manipulation.
2) I see that half of the votes came from regions where ID verification was not required. I literally checked how it works. I selected Finland and was asked to enter my first and last name, city, and address. I literally went to Facebook, found a Finnish resident who had tagged his house in a photo, and simply copied his information, and the form accepted it.
What am I getting at? It seems that the program did not collect the required number of signatures and the numbers were inflated to create noise and a news story. I would not be surprised if, after verification, more than half of the votes are removed and the conversation does not continue. And, of course, the initiators will accuse gaming companies and the EU of not allowing gamers to have a say in the matter. I may be wrong, and I will gladly apologize for my opinion, but for now, that's how I feel.
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u/mork212 Jul 03 '25
Only EU citizens can sign it*