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The 2022 competition was launched in April. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and Bank Indonesia, under the Indonesian G20 Presidency, today announced the shortlisted finalists for the G20 TechSprint challenge on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).

Winners to be announced in October ahead of G20 Summit.

Competition attracted proposals from a diverse range of competing organisations and teams.

Twenty-one teams have been shortlisted, out of almost 100 teams worldwide.

The event’s store now offers clothing and various decorative items featuring different LGBTQIA+ pride flags.

That ingame stores offer rainbow apparel during June is not a novelty, but as far as I can find, it is the first time that the Star Stable team explicitly acknowledges Pride Month and its LGBTQIA+ community. We’re very proud to celebrate the beauty of diversity across the globe this month and every month and we hope that all of you are filled with pride for who you are today! Know we are committed to making equality, inclusion, and diversity a priority all year long. The Rainbow Festival kicks off during Pride Month! We’re wishing a very happy Pride Month to all of our players and send extra warm wishes to our LGBTQIA+ players, colleagues, and community. In this week’s news post, Star Stable Online wishes its LGBTQIA+ players, employees and community members a happy Pride Month and kicks off the “Rainbow Festival” ingame event. Interesting side note: Star Stable has previously had events for Valentine’s day, but apparently no one objects to heteronormative content with romantic implications. I hope that SSE and its consulting companies who had a say in this will reconsider whether they really want to bow to homophobic scaremongering instead of proudly supporting their LGBTQIA+ players and employees. Many children of any age are themselves in the process of questioning their identity, gender and relationships to others, even long before 'sexual orientation' comes into play. The existence of LGBTQIA+ people is not inherently adult. To put it frankly, I consider this to be regressive bullshit. Multiple people from the SSO team itself are blindsided and disappointed by this decision, and I am trying to find out more about why it happened: the best educated guess we have for now is that there was significant backlash from concerned parents, and that there are differences between what is considered appropriate for 13+ social media networks and what is acceptable in the game’s own launcher, where younger children can see it.

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UPDATE 1: In an utterly disappointing development, the paragraph quoted below has been removed from the news post the day after. However, the ingame items with different pride flag colors are all still available, and only the news post on website and ingame launcher has been edited.

It was not designed to protect children from viewing particular types of content wherever they might go online.Ī possible reading is that letting kids buy specific pride color items is too close to 'asking' kids about their gender/identity/orientation, i.e. The American Federal Trade Commission’s website even states thatĬOPPA is meant to give parents control over the online collection, use, or disclosure of personal information from children. However, I can find no sources or precedents of that law actively dictating anything about LGBTQIA+ content. Although COPPA is a US law and Star Stable Entertainment is a Swedish company, businesses with customers in the US still need to comply with these regulations.

UPDATE 2: Star Stable claims that the mention of LGBTQIA+ people and Pride Month were removed in order to comply with COPPA law.

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