EU Council Calls to Protect Culture in Video Games

Why are you against them advocating for the industry, promoting jobs, and recognizing the significance of the videogame market?

pushing politics onto the industry

Is this just your insecurity talking because they want to promote gender diversity in the job market?

promote equality in the video games sector to ensure gender balance and equal pay

You want the EU to stop funding a shitload of games like they've done for decades? Weird take but ok?

These kind of initiatives are actually pretty great. Like most english language media, video games are pretty American dominated. Funding to games with unique perspectives could lead to some really interesting projects. I played a really interesting game called Black Book a while back. It was a fascinating look into Finno-Ugric culture in pre-revolution Russia (and a pretty good game, too). I'd love to see more titles like that

I wish the EU would just fuck off of the games industry

So, you're also American.

I don't generally think that "culture" policies like this make much sense, but it's important to note that "promoting culture" is the subject of legislation in a number of countries outside the US to a greater degree than it is here.

Things like quotas on domestically-produced content on radio or television are common in a number of countries. Even Canada does that.

It's common in many countries in Europe to have something like a "culture ministry", where a portion of the executive portion of government is dedicated to setting policies associated with culture.

So while I get the whole gut "why is the government trying to legislate culture" thing, this sort of thing is not gonna be wildly unusual in a number of countries in Europe in other forms of media. That is, it'd be a little odd if this wasn't specifically done with video games, by the norms there.